After the Calling

Frickin’ finally. This update will mark the end of this chapter.  It’s even longer than the last update (and was the bane of my existence for the past month). There is a smidge of Spanish, and I’ll leave a translation at the end. I speak Spanish kind of by accident, because I come from an unbelievably racially mixed family with a smidge of “I am Spanish” background and another smidge of “I learned Spanish” background . Columbian/Russian Spaniard for a maternal grandma. Chilean/Lebanese Syrian for a paternal grandma. English/South African and French Canadian maternal granddad who spent 12 years in Spain, meeting my grandmother and learning Spanish. Japanese American and Black paternal grandfather who works for the UN with a job description that is literally to “speak languages” (one of those being Spanish). All of that said, my mom pretends to understand French but pretty much only speaks English. My dad speaks English, teeerrrible Japanese, and has a sporadic understanding of German (for like, no reason. Seriously, I have yet to figure out why he kind of, sort of knows German). My overexplained point: SOMEHOW Spanish managed to trickle down from my grandparents enough for me to understand it perfectly and speak it proficiently. Despite being able to speak it, when it comes to writing and grammar, I’m at a first grade level. So I can’t promise that the Spanish in this update is grammatically sound… very much like my English.

What I’m trying to say is that nearly ten nations of the world joined together for the sole purpose of bringing heavy-handed Spanish to this update. That’s all I’m saying.

There is profanity, and violence, and nudity, and suggestive suggestions, and cheesy romantic sap in this update. I’m so glad this is up and over. Geez.

Hi Hi! Just a quick warning from my streaming conscious… this update is Freaking! Long! I feel like I’ve just ran a marathon. I want to shorten this chapter for a number of crazy reasons, so I smushed maybe the next 2 updates into this one. Now that I’ve done it, I know not to ever do it again, because putting it all together was a terrible experience. Boo to super updates. Is “smushed” a word? PLEASE forgive my phenomenally bad photoshop skills. Because they are bad. Phenomenally. PICTURES ARE SAVED FOR WEB! YAY! But please do let me know if there is still an issue (Looking at you Mao). There is a lot of information being spewed all in this update, and I do hope you’ll enjoy it, but at the same time sorry about the massive mass of words and pictures. I was compelled to do it. But not enough to ever really do it again… I promise. Maybe.

UUUHHHHHMMMMMMM….. Sexual themes. Profanity. Babies. Death. Nakedness. More Sexual themes. Not in that order… actually… exactly in that order. Be warned.

V

Okay, I am finally up and moving again. I have to admit, after the holidays, my productivity level went off to some godforsaken corner of the Antarctic to die. I blame it all on Animal Planet. I don’t usually have time for television, so when I do, I just binge on Animal Planet and all the Discovery channels. 24/7. Even the repeats. I can’t stop. Sea turtles can drown. To catch fish in really shallow water, dolphins hydroplane. They frickin’ hydroplane. Sometimes, to swim with sharks while they film them, camera men put on camouflage wet suits that work for like 4 minutes before the sharks catch on. The resulting situation is simultaneously insane and hilarious. Really, I couldn’t stop. My boyfriend staged an intervention, so I’m back. I’m lucky enough to work for my sister, so I’ve managed to wiggle my way into an extended vacation, during which I plan to put in a few super massive updates. Starting with this one!

I finally managed to download Apartment Life and tame my computer’s overwhelming urges to crash, and also discovered treeag’s freezer clock, and now I feel like my whole life has changed. I basically scraped everything I’ve done to date and have begun reshooting. Much more is possible now, it terms of posing, so my story line is also gonna do a bit of a switch up. Nothing you’ll notice, but this chapter which originally had 14 parts will be shortened to 10.

Additionally, even though AL is frickin’ awesome, my game has now decided if it can’t crash, then it will just run slower than a sleeping senior citizen while my game card gives me, maybe, an hour of honest effort before spiraling to a fiery death. It mainly affects my lighting (no mods, just maxis stupidity), so with this update, I did some lighting photoshoping. I’m not sure if it works and I like it, or if it’s annoying, but the pics might look strange. ENOUGH TALK!

 Mercer Rye has been added to the characters section.  Please note: Contains violence and blood. USE DISCRETION!!!!

And, containing less violence and blood, but more profanity, this: (link fixed)

Hi all! Sorry it took me so  long to update. I’m still recovering from the onset of the holidays. Hope Thanksgiving was wonderful for those who celebrate. And for those who don’t, I hope you had an awesome Thursday.

WordPress has updated it’s dashboard which, unfortuately and predictably, is totally not working for me, and is screwing around with my urls (!), so I’m just waiting for the site to fall apart. Cross your fingers.

Also, I was trying to switch over to photobucket in order to avoid any future picture eating, and it completely destroyed my picture quality.  I already don’t have the most spectacular shots, so I was pretty peeved, but if anyone has a remedy to that (I’m looking at you Mao), it would be awesome, because I no longer trust anything WordPress.

Anyhoo, update below. No warnings.

Thanks,

     Veron

I know! I know, I’m just impossible.  I pretty much wasn’t ever planning on posting until my Freetime worked, I just couldn’t admit it.  But it works! I just can’t use lots that are bigger than 3X3 or I can pretty much expect a crash. 

And you wanna know the best thing. I only used ONE freetime animation in this reshoot.  I spent 3 days fighting for ONE shot, because every other animation that I thought I wanted to use just didn’t work even a little bit. All this hoopla for one picture. 

But half of these shots are Bon Voyage, half are Freetime.  There is a smidge of discontinuity in photo quality.

Warnings: Some nudity, but not real nudity, like, a bit of buttcheek. But it’s Hadrian’s buttcheek, so… Some mild cursing.

Veron

Edit: Why this post is showing up on the “Who’s Got” wordpress blog… I don’t know. I can’t get it off. Please ignore.

Hi all! I know its terribly annoying that I don’t have an update day and I’m just kind of randomly posting, but at this point I really can’t rely on my schedule. To be honest, I can never really rely on my schedule. I have a somewhat off-kilter job and I can never be super positive where I’m going to be at any given point.  Besides, before, when I actually had a schedule, I never followed it, or updated even remotely on time, so if you can just bear with me…

Random: This is my first presidential election where I’m old enough to vote (I’m 21! eek!) and I’ve never felt cooler in my life.

Many thanks to Penelope for the death of the red-dotted corners. Terrible buggers, they were.

F-BOMBS! Be warned.

1) If this chapter was a person, I would take it outside and kick it’s ass. It sucks and I hate it. I mean I love it, but I hate making it, because it sucks and if it were a person I’d kick it’s ass.
2) WordPress has turned on the auto-spell-checker thingy and won’t let me turn it off, so I just spent 87 years trying to keep it from changing Nyxon’s name to “Nylon stockings” in every paragraph. NYLON STOCKINGS!
3) This chapter was originally supposed to be called Secret of Desperation… true. But I changed it. Reason: I’m ambidextrous, and while I write neater with my right hand, I spell better with my left hand. The difference in spelling is drastic and uncontrollable. It’s odd. I’ve done it my whole life.  My boyfriend thinks I have a brain tumor. In writing my notes for the chapter, my right hand kept pissing off my left hand because its an idiot and can’t spell “desperation”. Despair is spelled correctly on both hands, so we’re going with it.
4) Lately, my crop jobs have sucked. The little red dots in the corners of some of my shots are… just… sorry.
5) Please ignore certain character’s changing heights (if you notice it). My sims are assheads and they don’t listen to anything I say, whether free will is on or not.
6) For all of my sim-story writing readers out there, NEVER use a house made of windows as your set. You can’t hide ANYTHING. And it sucks and makes you want to take your chapter outside and kick it’s ass.

Oh, this too: