I haven't posted in more than a month, and I intend to (just like always) but as usual, I'm too lazy.

Hello random friend adds, it is nice to see you. I am not sure why I've been added but I feel privileged.

Sims 3 and I have this love/hate relationship - I think that I'm going to lose a lot of people I love because they're going to run off and play Sims 3, and I would love to be in on that, but I can't (my computer won't run it) etc etc and I want to stick with Sims 2 annnnd I'm annoyed with EA.

Anyway, I can't help getting excited over advertising that I FINALLY understand in Norway, and I'm leaving soon, and I take pictures of everything because I'm a tourist.

( 2 pictures of advertising, sorry )

Anyway, my (eventual) point is that I'll probably stick with Sims 2 but I intend to play a combination once I can actually kick my computer into submission on Sims 2. Also I'll eventually start trying to update regularly once I go back to Australia because it will be wintertime and the weather will be horrible :P. It's gorgeous here at the moment, by the way...

I want to see pictures of Sims 3 advertising from wherever you are!

I thought a lot about accents, partly because of smjoshsims's post about them a while back, but also because of all the travelling I've done recently. So I've reconfigured my map of where things are and their accents in my head, and now I have to somehow think about how I get this across. Or whether I should just not bother.

I also moved in and made over the entire Ottomas family, only to have my computer crash before I saved. It's not been a good week.

( So instead, have a quick makeover of the Ramaswamis! )

For those of you, who, like me, like to use a lot of OMSPs:

A lovely (decorative) wall hanging that turns OMSPs visible/invisible. Great if you lose them all the time, like me.

Also, a "couples" posebox. NSFW or children, although the preview images are merely linked to in the thread. Not sure if the poses are usable (some of them look a bit...frozen), but I want to have a mess around with them anyway.

I love this community sometimes. Yes, we have a massive amount of wank (see today's sim_wank post), but there are always nice new creations that I see, and think "JUST WHAT I NEEDED, THANK GOODNESS".  (And yes, I do think in caps sometimes.  Maybe my brain is Death.)

Okay, I'm too tired to type, obviously.

Title: Dr Black, in the study, with the candlestick
Fandom: None? Original Maxis characters.
Characters: Olive Specter, unnamed character
Word Count: 100 exactly (so proud!)
Picture Count: 3 (plus 1 extra)
Prompt: From drabblegroup, item list #1, prompt #2: A steak knife, an iron gate, and a weed.
Warnings: Frightening image? And "supernatural themes" (I partly just wanted to say that)

( It was Dr Black, in the study, with the candlestick. )

So I spent far too long trying to take pictures for a drabble, and they're not perfect yet. So I'm refusing to post them.

Instead, have some makeovers of some famous Veronavillians!

( Click here for 3 images )

I want to marry SilentLucidity from MTS2.

Not only did they make the awesome shiftable shelves, but they also made another awesome set of shelves that allow sims to walk around or through objects.

I should really play the game sometime with all this stuff loaded :P

I was messing around with the new M&G stuff, and who better to do that with than a plantsim?

( Daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do )

I finally have Mansion and Garden Stuff.

All is right with the world.

Now to decorate!

(Pointless post of pointlessness is almost pointlessly over).

So I was bored a few days ago, and made over some Veronavillians. And thought I should update at least sometime this year :P  I know dothesmustle won't talk to me ever again otherwise.

( Click here for 2 images )

Okay, this post is pretty much pointless. But there is a new pose box with handholding! YAY FOR HAND HOLDING! (There are some other poses in there, but they're slightly odd.)

For those of you with M&G that have problems with sims saluting when they're holding items, tunaisafish made a fix.

Yes, that's all.

I got Mansion and Garden Stuff!  Finally, my collection is complete!  Unfortunately I'm having issues with installing it, but hopefully I'll figure it out in the next few days so I can decorate a house or two (or three).

Oh yes, and I realise I'm now DAYS behind on my updating.  I've been distracted by moving to another country (how cool is Norway?) and have a slight lack of internet at home.   However, I've got some stuff planned out, and having inspiration is better than having none.

Blah blah blah...Hey look, it's the little fic that I've been promising. It's very image heavy (I have no idea what happened to all my lovely words, word count was 84), but I like it. I also didn't end up using that image I had to go back for specially. 6 images, title: My Best Friend.

( My Best Friend )

In my previous post, I said that I thought Angela and Lilith were exact clones of each other, at least physically. smjoshsims agreed with me, but drx4000 disagreed and made me reconsider. So, I loaded up my game, took off all their makeup, and dressed them in the same clothes. I also madeover Angela and got that last picture for the fic, while I was at it.


( 4 images comparing Angie/Lilith + bonus picture of madeover Angela )

So I finally got some inspiration, and wrote a mini fic about the Pleasant twins. Unfortunately, I exited out of the game without taking one critical picture, and so now I can't update (reloading the game and taking the picture will take at least half an hour, and I have to work in the morning.)

Instead, I have a picture of Lilith Pleasant after a 'makeover'.

( cut for one image and some babbling )

New year's day is almost over for me (I am waaaay in the future :p).  I was looking through my journal, and I've decided (not as a New Year's resolution so much as something I want to do anyway) that I want to update more.  Especially because dothesmustle complained I never do.

I also wonder if this is slightly insane. 

Okay, my cultofrances secret santa thing is only a few hours late at the moment. And can I point out that I am hours in front of you guys, which totally makes it okay. (Please don't think about it too hard). It didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted but hopefully it's a little interesting...

My secret santee was beyondheroism__ , and my prompt:
"Aaaand because I know that you have me and that isn't very secret I am going to make it more surprising for me by giving you absolutely no prompt to follow. Go crazy! Do anything you want to Franny! Dress him in drag and make him do the hula! Have him fall madly in love with someone completely unexpected! Surprise me!"
So I attempted to incorporate most of this prompt :P I planned for this to be about a billion times more awesome, but sadly the game and my head were not cooperating with each other :(.

( and what have you done? )

I figured out what was crashing my game! Apparently the Tiki Maxis-Match superset was broken, so I couldn't see it.

Okay, I just have some picspam in preparation for my (hopeful) posting of my cultofrances Secret Santa in the next few days. Frances had some babies! (I will seriously give some kind of prize - a drabble or a painting recolour or something if you guess who with).

So, here they are in the ages they'll appear in my little Secret Santa gift. I couldn't be bothered forming a whole friend user group blocking the one person on my friends list who is my Santee. I apologise, beyondheroism__ . If you don't want to see it before it is finalised, don't click the cut.

( click here for the sneak preview )

So I'm trying to do my secret santa for cultofrances , and the game keeps crashing every time I enter  "children" or "surfaces".  No biggie, I just won't decorate the lot with items from there (yes, I'm too lazy to do the 50/50 dance right now).  So I was busy making babbys for the couple who I'm using so I could at least post that.

I got to 5 babbies (and goodness Frances makes some HIDEOUS children), and then I did something stupid, and I had to force an error on one of the sims.  And then they were gone, and so was the toddler they were holding.  They weren't even in the family pictures.

I swore loudly, and exited without saving.  And realised the last time I had saved was after 2 babies.

Dammit.

Okay, I'll have to fix it all tomorrow.  So angry right now :(  But at least I have a nice little story planned for the thing, even if it is late.