Shannon

Last time: Jack grew up into a bad haircut. Robbie got himself abducted and gave birth to an alien baby, Fiona, much to his family's shock and disgust. And finally, the Repo Man paid a little visit before the kids were shipped off to college!

I'm on a roll here. Don't crap out on me now, Internet!

Last time: Jude and Elise became elders. Jack became a child. Gemma neglected her children's grades to spy on Morgan, who officially hates the entire household now. Fun times were had by all.

So... I'm nearly an entire generation behind now. I blame it mostly on my TOTALLY SHIT INTERNET that no one else seems to care about and decides to crap out whenever I actually want to post something. And the remedy to that shit Internet is more Sims-playing, which just puts me even further behind. So I've got about 41350896 pictures to post and about two hours out of every day that my connection is actually stable enough to do so. Sigh.

Last time: Well, shit... Gemma had babies and stuff. Twin girls, Elliott and Allegra, and then their little brother, Jack. Honestly, I don't think much else happened. Just lots and lots of annoying whining (and not just from the children of the household). And plenty is still to come.

Last time: Lola tried to find herself her dream man and/or woman... and failed at finding either. Her sister, Gemma, meanwhile, found the teenage love of her life, Robbie. He may be a bit of a wimp but he's an adorable one. As for everyone else, Elise now has three Newbury men in her grips after coercing Avery into public woohooing with her. Jude is still... Jude. And Blake is still a zombie, a criminal zombie actually. AND NOW WHO IN THE WORLD WILL BECOME HEIR(ESS)?!?

Let's try this again.

Last time: Much growing up, as usual. Elise has apparently made it her mission to sleep with every Newbury male she can get her hands on. Blake enjoys spying on harmless people with the telescope, his most frequent victim being Morgan, his aunt Penelope's husband. Their arguing almost ruined Lola's birthday party. Jude almost froze to death because he's an idiot who likes to parade around in his underwear 24/7. And finally, Elise became freakishly obsessed with public woohoo.

First of all, a few weeks back, I got in an uber-organizational mood and decided that I was going to attempt to completely re-organize all of my Sims downloads... and we're talking completely re-organize, as in they were barely organized at all to begin with, just hundreds of files dumped into vague folders like "clothing" and "hair". Not to mention, most of the file names were completely cryptic as to what exactly they were or where they came from. Somehow, though, I managed to figure out what almost everything was (and the stuff that didn't have any clues in the names and I had no idea what the fuck they were in image previews I figured were better off deleted anyway) and now every last piece of custom content is organized into sub-folders with their creator and title so that I will never not know what they are again. It was terribly frustrating at times but I feel good about it now.

But no, that wasn't quite enough for me. Then I decided, "Oh, what the hell?!? I've already done this, might as well do everything else I've been too lazy to attempt now as well!" So over the past few days I've been trying to impose some sort of quality control on my clothing, most of all, because I had (and still do, really) way too much and I've also managed to townify and correctly bin it. Then I moved on to the hair and deleted all of the ages that certain ones didn't work on. After many boring, repetitive hours and a few panic situations (One: after townifying all my teen boy clothes, their skin suddenly turned white with every full outfit; after much painstaking taking out, putting in, restarting Bodyshop ad naseum I narrowed it down to a few random outerwears. Two: Bodyshop randomly crashing on one hair, only in the toddler stage, that it had never had troubles with before - also resolved through much trial and error.) I think the transformation is complete. These are the results, all Sims generated by rolling the die in Bodyshop, with absolutely no altering done by me, and I am very happy with them:

( OM NOM NOM! )

Finally! I can have townies with decent fashion taste! Previously fashion-forward Sims will no longer transition into disgusting outfits on their birthdays! Hopefully, once I actually start seeing the results in game, I'll think it was all worth it. (It's scary how much I care about these things but my tolerance for images that are not pleasing to the eye is very low.)

Onto the actual Newbury part of this post, with all of the deleting of content, a lot of their clothes, hair, and make-up got messed up so I've been having to go into the spare houses to make sure everybody stays looking good - just because I'm not playing them doesn't mean I shouldn't be keeping them well-groomed for potential walkby situations! And here are a couple amusing things I happened in on while doing so...

( Crazy, you want some? )

Meanwhile, because Bodyshop is retarded and doesn't let you give a Sim new hair if their old one happens to be deleted, I had to recreate Onyx and Xander in a different neighborhood so that I could fix them up and export them all nice and shiny.

( DEJA VU! )

Stepping out of the Twilight Zone and into the real Newbury world, over at Penny and her fiance, Morgan's apartment, I had forgotten that the last time I was there she had already managed to get knocked up.

( Cute chilluns up ahead! )

Alrighty. Anyway, I spent far too much time on this. Bye now.

P.S. I totally forgot this one! Here's Nico, Miranda's second-to-last child, all grown up and non-fat (Is it just me or does the male fat body look more like they're pregnant?!? The female one is kinda cute but the male is just gross.) since we never got to see him again after he was exiled in the college bin.

( Piccy. )

He still looks kind of permanently stoned. Which is kind of awesome.

Last time: I tried and failed to get Jude abducted. My new favorite townie, Elise, chanced to walk by and promptly joined the household in what may be a record-setting amount of time. So now she and Jude are slutty partners in crime. In the process of all that sluttiness, he managed to get her knocked up and she had a baby girl named Lola, who is officially the first REDHEADED Newbury and I am stoked. As for Blake and Cara, they got old, and Sasha kicked the bucket at some point as well. I think that's all the important stuff.

( 7.1: Everything you ever needed to know about alien abduction and more! )

Last time: Jude was a big manslut... on campus. Most of his ladies were okay with this. Except for one named Helen. She turned out to be the jealous type. And so with that in mind, we continue...

( 6.6: Big Man(slut) on Campus, Pt. 2 )

Last time: Sasha joined his wife in elderhood, unenthusiastically at first, while also being the most inappropriate grandfather in the world. Jude and Simon became teens. Everyone failed at work. And some other random happenings occured. Yeah.



So I finally gathered the patience last night to export the entire Newbury clan thus far in SimPE (that program runs hella slow on my computer); it's something I've been wanting to do for awhile since I've become so attached to most of them that I want the ability to keep them around forever and ever in new reincarnations if I so choose to. As I was in Body Shop, aging them all up or down to adult and getting their appearance just right and all, aside from making me terribly nostalgic for past generations, I also got the opportunity to see a few Sims as adults that I haven't been able to see in game as of this moment.

Xander, the only Newbury I've ever purposely killed prematurely (and I kind of regret it now; I could've just shipped him off to the college bin but I didn't think of that at the time), unfortunately retains his awkward looks into adulthood - and you don't even want to see how he looks as an elder, it's not pretty.



I guess he's not too bad (though the elder stage is, I swear!) but he's by far the most awkward-looking member of the family so far. Nico comes in second place; he's not exactly ugly, he's just... there's nothing interesting about him. And his face is kind of fat. He and Ophelia didn't look all that different as adults than they do as teens so I don't need to post them.

Then there's the two youngest of the most recent generation, Simon and Elijah, who were greatly overshadowed by their older (and blonder) brother. Since I don't really feel like playing them through college at the moment, I decided to take a sneak peak at what they look like all grown up. They are both actually a lot better-looking than I thought they would be.



Simon is kinda hot, shockingly; he wasn't really weird-looking as a teen but he still creeped me out for some reason. But I'm still sticking with Jude. Because blond, hello! I am blinded by the rays of sunlight surrounding his beautiful head of hair like a halo. Can you tell I really want some light-haired children to take over the bloodline?

When I'm feeling ambitious and patient again, and after I've sorted through all of my clothing downloads to decide what I want to delete (I always download clothes I think I want but then never end up using because I change my mind or they look different in-game or whatever), my next SimPE project is to remove inappropriate clothing from each category. Because outerwear does not belong in my everyday wear bin, okay? And it doesn't belong in the athletic bin either! And little girls' clothes don't belong in the little boys' wardrobes! (I don't know if I can actually fix this one as easily but it's also uber-annoying. I have all these girly raincoats in my toddler boys' section because people are idiots like that. And a dress in my child boys' section... which is even more freaky.)

Last time: Blake moved back into the legacy household, lovely fiance, Cara, in tow. They proceeded to quickly get hitched and pop out two sons, Jude (the first blond born into the family!) and Simon. As it turns out, though, that's about all they're good for - they've been massive failures at work and terribly boring at home. Miranda remains a cougar while attempting to extend her life as long as possible. And Sasha and Ella continue to be... well, Sasha and Ella; I think we all know how they are by now.

( 6.2: The Grim Reaper Is Not Amused, Pt. II )