April 2085: lie to you, part 1

April 2085: Charlie and Natty are 20 years old, Josh is 18.

Sountrack: "Would I Lie to You?" by Eurythmics

She remembered the first time they did it -- "did it", because at fifteen, you're not really mature enough to "make love" yet, even if you might really grow to love each other some day. It was her idea, after school before her parents got home for work. They had approximately sixty-five minutes and two condoms, and so it happened.

At twenty now, in their second year of college together, Natty had loved Charlie as long as she could remember knowing how to love. She loved him even though he was annoying sometimes, and a little bit anti-social, and had planets and stars on his boxers. She loved him because she'd grown up with him and watched him become a man. She loved him because she couldn't imagine loving anyone else.

on Nessa Phoenix and Sim cancer


I realize now that I never blogged about the gameplay tidbit that prompted Nessa's cancer storyline, which I promised I would write about after her story was finished.

February 2085: The Snowflake Ball (Ruby)

February, 2085. Ruby McCullough is 17, Claude is 12. Kevin Pittman is 19. Lily is 12.


"Smile," Barbara said, holding the camera up at her son and his girlfriend.

Claude's grades were ridiculous, and it was a miracle his father was even letting him go to prom. But they knew it would only disappoint Lily if he didn't go, and she looked so lovely. Her parents were lovely, and rich, and had five children in the school district. Barbara knew it never hurt to have powerful connections when her husband going for school board president. Best not disappoint one of their daughters.

Claude and Lily smiled for the camera.

no, THIS one is not the Sim story...

As you'll see here in a minute, I've decided to separate the postings of my story Sims and my playing Sims. Because I'm flighty and indecisive like that, lol!

But really it's because the storylines for my play Sims are being held up by the lethargic storylines of my SSA sims. As Sims, they all live in the same world, but I'll be posting about the SSA bunch over there, with proper stories and stuff, and the Alt-LH set will get picspam and gameplay updates over here. The SSA Sims may get picspam updates over here too if they're not going to be used for the story. You'll likely see some of the Sims in the background of others too, since they technically all live in the same world, same universe, same timeline and stuff.

I just know that I want one of these neighborhoods to actually make some progress for once! So this time I'm keeping my book storylines vs. blog storylines tightly checked. No stray stories, no tangents, no added storylines. Because you know, I've got these other play Sims to blog about too. And I thought I'd work on bringing my nerdy resident databases over here too.

Anyway, so that's what's up! Carrying on! :)

TS3 Uni comes to Lakeside Heights



For the record, I am not supposed to have this yet, lol! But I was too brain-dead to write last night anyway, so I installed it!

In the real story, Nora is supposed to be about 25 in 1985 LH, but she's also supposed to be at the tail end of her Doctorate degree, so there's a lot of schooling she's missed. I don't have much of a history built up for her, and part of my reason for turning her into a Sim in the first place was that I wanted to get to know her better for Matt's novel, so I thought it would be fun to kind of "flash back" to her college years. (I'm far enough ahead in the real hood that I've got PLENTY of story material to keep me posting while I play with Nora at Uni.) So here's 18/19 year-old Nora, many years before she met Matt, just starting her first year of university in 1979.

She always looks a little terrified of something, lol!