Death Type: Anger

A little update about my Save File

As it's been a while since I posted some shots of buildings I've made, here are some of the lots I built since Businesses and Hobbies release 🤗

I've nearly finished what I had in mind in terms of new lots, and now, my goal is to review every previous Sim and build I've made to make everything good enough to be able to release a first version of my save file. It will include a limited selection of worlds done (Henford, Tartosa, Copperdale, Sulani, Nordhaven, Del Sol Valley, Forgotten Hollow...) but a lot of builds, Sims, and lore.

I'm hoping to wrap everything up in the following weeks so stay tuned!

functional pacifier 2.0

download on patreon (early access) (public release - 02/11/25)

here i’m sharing the new features of the mod. for the main information, check out this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/functional-108383322 requires the xml injector

new features in new version:

three new pacifiers are now available in three different colors. you can check out all new pacifiers in the video thumbnail of this post.

all pacifiers work for both infants and toddlers. i used the texture slot for glasses, so unfortunately, it’s not possible to use glasses and a pacifier at the same time. however, you can now wear the pacifier together with onesies, which wasn’t possible in the first version.

pacifiers will automatically disappear during meals and baths. 

adult sims can now give pacifiers to children. after this interaction, the child will immediately start wearing the pacifier. for this, i used the in-game "check infant/toddler" animation, so there’s no custom animation. please note that the "give pacifier" action won’t show up if the sim is carrying the baby.

you can get pacifiers by purchasing them through the computer.

you can remove the pacifier by clicking either on the pacifier itself or directly on the sim.

please let me know if you encounter any issues. your feedback is incredibly valuable for improving and fine-tuning mods ❤️

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!

It's wedding time!!! 💍

More incorrect quotes because I find these to be hilarious.

Bonus:

More pics of the Ordonez's residence.

Inspiration

Northforker

Renovated Orient Point lighthouse transformed into artist’s residency

Over the past five years, sculptor Randy Polumbo has converted part of the interior of the Orient Point Light into an artist’s residency.

𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬   |   EPISODE NO. 2 "Carry Our Dead"

❧  𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟐 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬  /  𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯  /  𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭.

this is the depressing one, being the funeral and all … things get much more fun and sexy hereafter, if i may say so myself (after grandma reminds leonor to wash her ratty hair, that is). anyway, i had the notion that this first act was a grief diary for me, which is so weird as a self-proclaimed Person Who Hates Writing What I Know. however, the intensity of that as a creative process seriously helped me connect with the whole worldbuilding premise of this episode: in uspana, funerals are public, disruptive, and unvarnished, with the expectation that you forcefully expel the grief in a ritualized process that cleanses or exorcises in some vital way. leonor’s issue, of course, is that she believes she has failed step one … anyway, as before: if you're new, go catch up !

𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭 ↓

02.01 - a news broadcast recaps safya’s life : This post was the hardest to narrow down yet! There wasn’t fierce competition; I feel somewhat “meh” about it all now, which is wild since it was quite the heavy lift. Lots of different characters, settings, eras ... Runner-up is the first shot of Beatriz addressing the media about the funeral soon to begin. After the glut of color and activity preceding it, the simplicity of her plain white dress and shaved head against the gilded palace doors is even more stark. But, I like this one better. Maybe because it does look like we’re in this everyday classroom with Safya. Maybe because, again, we’re seeing her without her face, this time knowing it’s likely the last live clip of her most Uspanians would see. And these kids? What a memory!

02.02 - the family leads a procession : The procession remains a scene I’m proud of. It took so much learning! It’s hard to find good ~indigenous~ content—damn near impossible beyond American Girl fans and Manifest Destiny roleplaying. And anything more southern than the U.S. border? Forget about it! The yellow is marigold, a nod to the inspiration I’ve taken from Indigenous Mexico, blending Nahua, Maya, sometimes Huichol elements, or at least my best reading of contemporary art and so-called “pre-Columbian” records. I’ve always aimed to upend royal simblr’s pillars and called my story an “anticolonial fantasy,” and this was, to me, as far as you can get from the iconic Diana funeral replica. This one shot is a redo of a tester. You can tell in the post that it’s meant to be from Mateo’s vantage. Altho a teenager, he’s culturally an adult, but I imagine he didn’t feel it until he was asked to join his uncles and grandfathers in carrying his mother.

02.03 - beatriz gives leonor a warning : Rereading this scene for this ... Damn! It’s brutal. So, while I think this is a lovely and angelic close-up of Beatriz, I also feel like it conveys something deeper. Leonor catches her midway through her own preparations for this final ceremony with Safya’s body, desiring some kind of consolation or commiseration. The fact that she even attempts this interaction is naked, pitiful desperation. So, this? It’s Beatriz preparing herself. She is cruel, but it’s not without self-awareness. How must it feel, knowing she has to injure her dead daughter’s daughter, on this day, just moments before this ceremony? She suggested to the reporters that she was “empty,” but perhaps this pause suggests otherwise.

02.04 - the ceremonies take place : I never make passable statues but thought, “You know, with this wood texture, it’s fine!” Putting this all together, I noticed I adore profiles, and I noticed just now that this one mirrors the prologue image that I tagged as a favorite. No eyes, a contemplative expression ... I wrote this scene with raw memories of holding my grandmother’s hand while she died, feeling haunted by extra moments I lost when they took her body away too quickly but also intrigued by the feeling itself. I was always going to use an effigy, but the prose elevated it. There’s visual worldbuilding here around death and dying. Effigy Safya presides over a farewell for the flesh; whatever the effigy is imbued with, it burns with it. It must be something they don’t want or are unable to keep and tend alongside the bones, whose eventual unearthing signals becoming an ancestor.

02.05 - arnaut and blanca argue : Truth be told, this scene exists only because I love Arnaut and Blanca each and wanted to give her more screen time. It’s also a scene I redid! Notice a pattern there, lmao? Anyway, I like this shot for the angle. It’s a bit skewed but shows off the location. I think their orientation—him looking away, at a loss for words, while she mocks him—is fitting for bickering siblings, too.

02.06 - rodrigo explains to mateo and leonor : Don’t you love when you shoehorn a filler shot into a post and it turns out great? What I needed was space for dialogue that was, to abuse the phrase again, “visually interesting.” I chose this one the usual way: based on a vague gut feeling of whether it looked “right” or not. What I like is the sidelong angle as well as how the light hits. I’m not sure what the symbolism is, if there is any. It’s supposed to be a “shedding light” moment given Mateo’s questions? Rodrigo’s “illuminating” that dark night? I wanna say “Sometimes a picture is just pretty!” but that’s not my style as a certified nerd who Interprets™ for a living. It’s probably not wholly true either.

02.07 - beatriz prepares to move forward : I forgot about this scene! A treat to rediscover. True fans recognize Rowena and recall this troubled mother-daughter relationship. This scene is a reunion of Birdy and her parents, who appear elderly and in white. It’s a direct callback to two things: 1) the glimpse in the main story of Alfonso and Rowena on that bench prior to their wedding, and 2) the Father’s Day special where Alfonso, in poor health, consoles Beatriz on her wedding day and makes explicit what that glimpse showed, saying, “For me, this spot is where you came into being. This is the place where I first loved you.” Here, only Ro is visible while Beatriz departs (or approaches?) on a parallel track of sorts. I love that my story is, at least to me, so loud with intergenerational echoes. I said it best when I originally posted this scene:

idk idk idk i just love this setting !!!!! it's THE spot of circularity in This Story Where Time Is A Circle™ …

02.08 - the family departs to begin mourning : The finale! Leonor and Arnaut are central, showing that she intends to isolate herself by rebuffing, not only Arturo, but also her uncle’s attempt to fulfill undying obligations to his sister. However! I have a soft spot for the olds, and this shot is so ... evocative, to me, generally and of their dynamic. We surmise from the earlier scene that Beatriz is allowing Sal to be close while Matias is on the periphery. I won’t detour into that other than to say what I see here is Matias wandering in his own mind. He’s lost his daughter and firstborn, too, and arguably the child who favored him most in personality and temperament. He doesn’t begrudge Sal and Beatriz their relationship at this moment; he’s too selfless for that. He knows Beatriz won’t permit him to comfort her this way—not for lack of love but, maybe, because that’s how she loves. Sal and Bea know that he won’t rest and care for himself until he’s exhausted and alone. What I learned is how abruptly quiet and still life becomes when the business of death is done and its distractions end.

"𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦"

The Anythings, a few years later 📸

trans women, i love you.

you were a woman yesterday. you're a woman today. you're a woman tomorrow. you're a woman forever.

trans women have existed long before those stuffy bigots sitting in a court room have. trans women will continue to exist long after they're dead and rotting in the earth.