#simlili

@simlili​ I’m trying my best ❤️

@aphony-cree​ thanks! Most of the hair recolorists add the polys to the posts, so I thought I join in :)

@amisdesims​ simple pants are the best!

@devotedlyghostlyenemy​ I’m glad! Definitely more is coming, because I have no self control XD

@itsdiamondeyesuniverse​ haha, true! Thank you for the original age and gender conversions btw!

@amisdesims​ It’s a very cute top indeed! And it can be used for mashups :P

@episims​ these are for you too!

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

Penny needs to invite people over.

I’m going to be honest--a lot of this one is on me.  Penny is busy with her children, yes, but inviting sims over and throwing parties is something I’ve had to make a conscious effort to add to my playstyle.  I am an introvert, so I don’t naturally think to do those things, but Penny certainly would.  I get better at it later on.

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Overwhelmed, yeah, that’s one (very generous) way to look at it…

You know, as many exasperating, irresponsible, and even unkind things as other Widespot denizens do, Junior is still the one I most often want to slap. It’s the nice points - they raise expectations.

Junior is the kind of person who wants to be helpful, and so does something that on the surface seems helpful, but then--without examining the situation further--dusts his hands off, congratulates himself on being helpful, and then goes on to “help” someone else, leaving chaos in his wake.

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Holly has some good Nice points, but the Group Home girls all start out either in, or close to, aspiration failure. Because at-risk teens do not have a lot of sources of satisfaction in their lives! And teens in aspiration failure tend to act out.

I keep my sims too happy, but that’s something I’m trying to work on.  This household is great practice.

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More signs of aspiration failure. I forgot about destroying flowerbeds as a form of acting out when I put those cacti there.

This is meant to be a very challenging house. The one you play when the Newsons and Ottomai have gotten Too Easy.

I mean, technically, she has shoes on at least!

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Hey, I see Steve - and Maribel! Looks like she kept walking and he made a pass at the wrong girl there.

“Tease” seems to have been swamped by other, more strongly-coded ones when later EPs came out. You can still choose Tease options, but they’re kind of buried, and other options are far more likely to be performed autonomously.

It didn’t occur to me when we were planning the neighborhood what a difficult time Steve is going to have with any of the Group Home girls.  Holly is gay, sure, but any of the others will be almost as much of a challenge because of the aspiration failure.  They’re just not in the right place for romance.

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Claire and Holly get along real well! Whoa, Maribel jacked a car!

I blame Tia Geni.  ;)

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And there’s SodaPop! I think I recognize this house - it’s right in the same neighborhood as the Splitter/Dore house and the Group Home. Looks like Claire and David King really get along!

They do.  When I was playtesting this, I considered requesting a pre-established relationship, but the more I thought about it, the more I concluded that A--there’s no need, and B--Claire might have prioritized the Group Home over personal friendships.  Plus, there’s more room for interpretation this way.

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Aw on him leaving money to the grandchild he never got to meet!

I think Rich is one of those old white dudes who do things for their families because at the end of the day, they think it somehow absolves them of their other failures.  They’ll be on their deathbeds, thinking about all the nasty shit they said and the ruthless business deals they made, and then they’ll just say to themselves, “But I was a good provider.  My family didn’t lack for anything they needed.”  As though that justifies everything else.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

A complicated Mann.

I’d be curious to see someone play out the prequel of Rich Mann.  I’m not convinced that he had to turn out the way he did, and I’m wondering what it was that ended up pointing him that direction.

simlili said: :D Rest in relative peace, Rich, if you can, you will surprisingly be missed.

Indeed.  It was his genuine affection for Anita that took me by surprise.  They didn’t know each other that long, but I can promise you, Anita never forgot him.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

The rock and roll lifestyle has its hard knocks.

I get the feeling Gunnar got used to being slapped a long time ago.

penig said: Yeah, that’s not gonna come back and bite you in the butt, Gunnar…but it’s all material, right?

It’s material, and ego boost.  After all, if his music career is off to a slow start, at least he’s good at something.  Not, of course, that I think Gunnar even realizes that’s what he’s doing.

dramallamadingdang said: Better to want 20 grandchildren than 20 kids! :) At least you can give grandchildren back!

Ha!  And yet, I would not be surprised if Beulah had wanted 20 kids, either.  Maybe she’s older and wiser now.  ;)

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

Stay alive long enough, Beulah, and it’s a lock.

Actually...hmm.  I think the Land grandchildren only made it to 17.  But you shall see what happened to Beulah.

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He can’t possibly look at her all grown up and not flash back to Beulah at the same age.

Possibly wondering how his and Beulah’s futures would have turned out differently if they could have had a college education?  At least Delta will find out.

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Poor Virginia…This is not what she grew up expecting from life.

No, and that’s what made me love Virginia.  As long as she was the princess, she bored me, but when she got back to Widespot and her whole life turned into a great big “Now what?” she became immensely interesting.  Like her mother, she’s been raised to have certain expectations, that may or may not be tied to reality.  But Virginia took that step back (partly prompted by having to deal with her mom) and had to come to the uncomfortable realization that she is a factor in determining the outcome of her future.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

Presumably they’re using Valentine and Angel during his years on the road as models. It only has to work for them, not make sense to anyone else.

True--but I don’t think either of them are being particularly honest with their other partners.  I won’t call Val and Angel a bad example, but Sandy definitely was.

penig said: Freshly chopped vegetables, obviously. Yum!

I have such a hard time finding a genre for the Bees.  At any rate, I plan to end the multi-genre prologue soon and move on to chapter one.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

Yeah, don’t try to compete with a Hart on that playing field.

Goldie knows what she’s doing.  Rocky and Spelling have good chemistry, and if it didn’t happen this way, Goldie would be the one stamping her foot outside the hot tub.

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That’s quite the face on L’only! (Oh, Scot!)

Yeah, L’only is pretty clearly Junior’s kid, but because Candy never married, it kind of doesn’t matter.  Rich has left it arranged for L’only to be able to attend college, which is a major rule exception in my ‘hood because L’only is of undocumented parentage (read: bastard) but after that he will not be able to hold a normal job.  I can go into that rule later.

As for Scot...”oh, Scot” is right.  I don’t remember if I’ve said before, but he has a turn-on for aliens, plus, I think he’s pre-disposed to have a thing for Penny--certainly she must have featured in the spank-bank at one point or another, given the dearth of non-Land women in Widespot.  As for Penny, I rather suspect that Junior is under delusions about what constitutes “getting the job done” at home.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

It’s always good to see Skye happy. And he and Stella will have an awesome green baby!

I love, love, LOOOOVE Stella and Skye.  I have to be honest, they’re boring as heck, but I don’t even care.  They’re just so cute together.  And I think she’s perfect for Skye because in a way he’s expanded his comfort zone, but in a way, he never had to leave it.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

So what that his LTW? Is he permaplat now?

Uhhhh, I think so.  I forget.  I know he reached permaplat, either from that, or just from maxing the bar.  I kept him alive a LOT longer than I had any reason to--I actually had to write it into the story that he had made the elixir of life himself, because there was no natural way to explain why he lived so long.  He had a lamp, but he wouldn’t use it because it was all fairy tales and he was Science.  Plus, Street, his dog, continues to be immortal to this day, so he must have perfected it for the dog and only had partial success on sims.

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Oh, dear, robot mess! Good thing Skye enjoys cleaning. But that’s the opposite of what the robot is for, dang it!

Brace yourself.  The robot problems get much worse.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

100% Sandy’s POV. If the world won’t meet your terms, rewrite it around yourself.

Absolutely.  I was really trying to do that with the multi-genre format, to establish that what the character thinks about the situation is totally subjective and from their point of view.  Sandy lives in a soap opera fantasy, so that’s how her story is told.

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Don’t forget to give that boy a telescope. Have you considered the possibility that Anne can impregnate him?

I have, Anne probably has (she doesn’t say much, even to me) but Scot definitely has not.  My Scot has a very traditional idea of gender norms, and he’s not open-minded about that at all.  He does have a telescope, and although I don’t think I have pictures of him using it, I’m fairly confident that he did a fair bit--but he was never abducted.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

Whoa, check out Dixie in the fur coat. And congrats to Jasmine.

Yes, Dixie has Money, now.  XD

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If she’s old enough to ask the questions, she’s old enough to hear the answers.

Fortunately for Maria, Penny is one of the few Widespot parents wise enough to realize that.  She’s always been very honest and objective about her daughters’ development, and she is one of the moms who insists on birth control.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

Three kids so young! They are awful cute, though.

All of River’s kids turned out adorable.  One of the things I’m trying to do with young families is to experiment with income level, so that not all sims are of the same social class.  I’m not totally happy with results yet, but you should see more of it as we go along.

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

Myrtle is a very deep-thinking young lady.

I had never thought about this until you said so, but you’re right.  I do play Myrtle as being a little more perceptive and thoughtful than other sims.  I think it’s because she ended up rolling as bisexual.  She’s still got her issues, though--all shy and grouchy?  She can’t get along with people for shit.  XD

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

Oh, dear. And therapy options are limited in Widespot.

And even if they found an option, how are they going to get her to go?  She doesn’t think she has a problem.  Virginia could threaten to kick her out, but Sandy helped pay for the house.

moocha-muses said: The best Penny moments are definitely the ones when her scientific rigor falls right by the wayside.

Agreed.  Penny is so interested in objective truth (which is important) that she neglects her subjective view of the world (which is also important).  High Int, low wis.  She shies away from knowing herself.  I think she scares herself a little.  What if she were to find out that she was the Other?

penig reblogged this from emeraldfalconsims and added:

Oh, Penny…

I see the entire Weiss family as having this huge hole left by the absence of the alien parent.  Ann Rice has a really great quote in Interview with the Vampire where Louis says to Claudia,

...only you were complete...because there were two of us, one on either side of you, from the beginning.