Lap Reading For Infants & Reading While Infants Nap On Laps

The sound of kids playing and fishermen laughter by day, the sound of trains and dinner chatter by night; the sound of car doors closing and distant conversations; dogs barking; a worn out basketball hitting pavement; disgruntled construction workers swearing…

…in Stillwater, Foundry Cove.

I’m still working on adding some life to the neighborhood part of the North Hollow save. Some features have definitely changed since the last WIP. The trees, for one. (I’ve been super picky about trees). I also decided to embrace the small town vibe, and have since then combined my inspirations (a dash of northeast, a sprinkle of PNW, and anything that inspired my Pinterest board lol.) I’ve been practicing my building too. (I’m not a builder at heart. Oh and ignore the roofs. I hate roofing omg.)

i've been working on this legacy challenge on and off for months now and it's finally here! i really made this because i wanted to play something like it. but i thought it'd be fun to share for anyone else who might be interested. if you do play, feel free to tag me. i would love to see your journeys 🥹 there are too many words for a tumblr post, so you'll have to check out the google doc. the general rules as well as a link to the "deck" and dice roller will be under the cut!

Click here for the Tarot Legacy Challenge

G E N E R A L R U L E S :

Start with a single founder in a new save.

Each generation follows the theme of a Major Arcana Tarot card, completing its unique goals and embracing the fate of the tarot card pulled.

Each heir must fulfill their generation’s goals before passing onto the next.

You may draw your Tarot card for the next generation when the first heir is born. You are welcome to choose any of your current heir’s children to be the next generation’s heir.

This challenge will include all packs so feel free to modify to fit your needs when necessary. This was created with Life & Death as the most recent expansion pack. As new packs release, you are more than welcome to modify the rules for the new content.

Play on any lifespan and with any mods or cheats you’d like– whatever makes the challenge more fun for you, have at it. Add any little twists that you’d like to spice up gameplay. If you want to use different traits/aspirations/careers than listed, go for it! Again, whatever you feel fits your playstyle best. Just try your best to stay aligned with the Tarot theme of that generation.

You can play as many or as few generations of this legacy challenge as you’d like. You don’t have to play all 22 generations. I would recommend a minimum of 5 just to make it a “legacy” – but follow your intuition 😌✨🔮

D E C K & D I C E R O L L E R :

A link to the “Deck” :

https://spinthewheel.app/yOOKcsbAUE

Dice Roller (Only necessary for some generations) :

https://g.co/kgs/QkCbwo4

BEWARE of Residential Rentals!

I went to place a lot yesterday and my entire savefile suddenly corrupted. I realized it was corrupted because after I placed any lot, all of the other lots in my game reset to the original version of them. They all looked fine from world mode, but once loaded into any lot the issue persisted. Read more about these issue here.

I rolled back the save and it was fine so I decided to try and remove the entire pack and see what would happen. After removing the pack, I could place new lots and the game was fine. Which meant for me the issue is FOR RENT.

I was nowhere near the limit of residential rental lot nor did I use any cheats to have more than six units per lot. I was not placing a residential lot when it corrupted. So far it seems fine to add the pack back and just avoid the lot type.

TLDR: Removing FOR RENT prevented my savefile from corrupting when placing new lots. The steps I used to stabilize my savefile are below.

Hope this helps!

Steps to remove For Rent:

1. Use this to load the game without For Rent. 2. Follow this if you end up with two different Tomarang Worlds when you load the pack back into the game. I did. 3. Remove each residential rental lot. I set them all to residentials. 4. Replace all of your household outfits that got messed up. Otherwise some sims will be nakie.

Tips:

Backups: Helps if you have backups of your households and lots in your trayfiles. Fixing outfits: If you don't care about relationships you can delete and replace or use MCCC to copy and paste the outfits back on the sim. Or if you have a dresser file, run that for new outfits.

This has happened to me a few times, but this was the first time I decided to see if I could role back the game, avoid the corruption, and restore my savefile.

Tis the season for stalking the life you left behind and definitely not missing it at all.

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I want to give a special shout out to @pocketgnome for the webpage template I used as a base and also for letting me turn their Gnomes in Art series into Ulrike's latest project! Additional templates by @pxltown (Social Bunny) and @folkbreeze (Google).

Helena: Happy Winterfest, Dru. [resigned sigh] Ah, fuck it.

[Googles “thrifteaprincess social bunny”]

[Captions on Julia’s most recent posts:

Styled the whole gang (except Mom and Dad) for winter formal. ALL CLOTHES FULLY THRIFTED!!!

Joked that they owed me a car for this year’s Winterfest card concept. THEY CAME THROUGH!! 😱]

Helena: What the hell? They never bought me a car.

[Comments on Julia’s post:

Bri: Why isn’t Helena ever in your pictures anymore? You guys were #sistergoals! Did you have a fight?

Julia: Noooooo, we’re good! She’s volunteering in Selvadorada like an absolute boss. 💪 My idol, for real!]

Helena: Selvadorada? Is that what she told Mom and Dad?

[Copperdale Courier article:

Copperdale Creep Trail Goes Cold

Police say they haven’t received a viable lead on this summer’s series of violent attacks for months.

The so-called Copperdale Creep’s reign of terror seems to have ended just as abruptly as it began. Although there have been no reports of attacks since late summer, many Copperdale residents are still shaken and tourists are reluctant to return. “Business still hasn’t recovered,” admits ThrifTea owner Eloise Hiddlestix. “Out-of-towners are too afraid to visit, and locals are too afraid to leave their houses.” Despite the lingering cloud of uncertainty, police still can’t provide any answers, recently admitting they’ve uncovered no new evidence and currently have no suspects. Luckily, the last known victims, two teenagers whose identities have not been disclosed, have made a full recovery. The prevailing theory is that the culprit was a rabid animal, but the public has remained loudly skeptical of this claim, insisting that no animal would be capable of the stealthy precision…]

[Windenburg Art Review article:

Gnome Mania

The mischievous lawn ornaments are no laughing matter to this artist.

Why gnomes? “They’re as quotidian as they are quirky,” Faust explains. “They’re agents of chaos, yet they’ve become synonymous with suburban lawns, absurdity wrapped in conformity. I find that double identity compelling.”

It’s been only a few months since Windslar welcomed its latest artist-in-residence, Ulrike Faust, but her work is already raising eyebrows. Some find her twists on artistic classics a cheeky breath of fresh air. Others have called them nothing more than glorified plagiarism. “Obviously, I don’t own the Mona Lisa,” she responds, rolling her eyes. The UBrite graduate never minces words…]

Lilith: Helena, where are you? Let’s get this godforsaken gift exchange over with.

Helena: Coming!

Sorry to bother you, but I have a quick question. How do you do the preschool gameplay in your game? Do you have a mod? Or did you make all the other kids and move your toddler to a preschool household? Sorry if this is weird, I’ve just been looking for more gameplay ideas for my toddlers and kid sims!

hi there! you're no bother at all, i'm very wcif-friendly! :) okay so, there are a few things here:

first thing: the toddlers in my preschool post are actually deco sims from @reigningsims (link here). lazysimmies on insta also has a similar deco sim pack for children sims here, if you're interested! i just used the daycare section of the san sequoia family center build by @softerhaze and pretended is was a preschool classroom :)

second: i don't have a preschool mod per-se, but i do have an elementary school mod by @zerbu! it works similarly to how high school years works - but you have more control over the settings (like you can put an elementary school on any lot - but you can still only have one in-game at a time, you can control how many students are in the class, there are field trips, guest speakers, etc.)

third: as far as i know, there isn't a preschool specific mod where you can follow your toddlers to school, BUT there is a rabbit-hole mod that allows you to send your toddler to half-day preschool by @adeepindigo (link here). this mod also has other toddler rabbit-hole activities like playdates, parent & me classes, library story time, etc. that give buffs to your sims as well. highly recommend, especially if you have more than one infant / toddler / child sim in your houeshold and you want some free time or one-on-one time with the other, lol

i hope that helps and is what you were looking for! let me know if there's anything i can clarify :) happy simming!

looking at everyone's beautiful sims and stories is really making me want to dive in and start posting my own stuff!! but the Perfectionist in me really wants to figure out how to make my screenshots actually look good first and hoo boy, there is a lot I still want to learn about how to do that

Little Critters set

Little Critters is a delightful custom content set designed for infants, toddlers, and kids, all wrapped up in an enchanting animal forest theme. Bursting with vibrant colors—except a quirky sad beige swatch for contrast—it transforms any room into a playful woodland retreat. This set is also the opportunity of a fantastic collaboration with Luddysims, whose charming artwork shines through in cute paintings and seamless wallpapers. From an infant co-sleeper crib that works with adult beds to a basegame changing table, highchair, playmat, toys, books, and plenty of décor, Little Critters is the perfect way to celebrate every stage of childhood in the cutest way possible. 🐸

Description

This set is basegame compatible (except for the playmat which requires Growing Together) and includes 40 new items.

Comfort: Chair (2 versions), co-sleeper (right and left), kid bed, toddler bed, rabbit chair.

Surface: Round small table, toy shelf, wall shelf.

Decor: Books, cabin (right and left), fox plushie, Framed animals, Good books trolley, modelling clay, owl plushie, plant, rectangle painted frame, toy basket.

Lighting: Ceiling light (for all 3 heights), night light (anti-monster), wall fox light.

Functional: Changing able (basegame), playmat (requires Growing Together DLC), highchair, mobile (for all 3 heights, slowly rotate), squirrel toy, treehouse, trashbin.

Floor: Grass carpet, Painted plaster ceiling.

Walls: Forest pattern, seamless woodland, assorted painted plaster.

📥Early Access download | Public 28.02

Kitchens in the summer time.

Wishing all undiagnosed/partially diagnosed people a very doctors listening to you and providing you with more testing than a blood draw and even possibly providing treatment 2024

And so it begins... 🏡📦