Here's My Favorite Drawings Of 2023, Wooooo! It's So Fun To See All The Different Seasons Represented.

Here's my favorite drawings of 2023, wooooo! It's so fun to see all the different seasons represented. I'm curious, which of these do you like most?

Thank you for following along with my art this year! I feel so lucky that anyone connects with my weird little drawings. Your attention and kindness is very much appreciated. ♥

Here's to more growth in 2024!

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Please implement a permanent off switch for Tumblr live, I don’t want to see porn banner ads on top of my dash because that’s essentially what Tumblr Live is. Some of them just AI generate their thumbnails too

Bluewater Village 2024

I'm not going to be documenting every detail this time, but I am back in Bluewater! (I finally found a work/life balance that lets me play sims every once in a while!) I've played four rounds now, so maybe 15-20 years? Let's call it 20 because it's a nicer number.

I'm still playing with the basic rules I had all those years ago (2016!) but I focused more on gameplay than on storytelling and I've changed some of the challenges. I'll share more about each family and their challenges in individual posts. (Otherwise this one would get way too big!)

Individual family posts will go up through the queue this week. 😊 Feel free to ask questions!

Bluewater Village 2024

I'm not going to be documenting every detail this time, but I am back in Bluewater! (I finally found a work/life balance that lets me play sims every once in a while!) I've played four rounds now, so maybe 15-20 years? Let's call it 20 because it's a nicer number.

I'm still playing with the basic rules I had all those years ago (2016!) but I focused more on gameplay than on storytelling and I've changed some of the challenges. I'll share more about each family and their challenges in individual posts. (Otherwise this one would get way too big!)

Tinker Impossible Wants Challenge

This family is solely responsible for the incredible number of children in this next generation. Not only do they currently have nine children (if you count Melody), but they are also the reason I installed the triplets and quads mod. Yes. Really. And apparently I am far too fond of clicking the random button because you will notice quite a number of twins in this neighborhood this time around.

Currently, Stephen and Wanda have: Melody, Aria, Harmony, Bass, Timpani, Soprano, Tenor, Abby (the redhead and the only adoptee so far), and Rhapsody. Aria and Harmony and Soprano and Tenor are two sets of twins. Abby was adopted when Soprano and Tenor were just babies, right before Rhapsody was born. (I think Wanda panicked a little bit about not making her goal before she became an elder.)

Stephen just became an elder this past round. melody went to college after around two and is currently in her junior year. I’ll do more about her later.

The challenge, by the way, is no longer just to have 10 kids. Whoever inherit the challenge will then have to do an impossible want for their aspiration. We’ll see where this all takes us.

Delarosa DITFT Challenge

Florence Delarosa married Robi Monif, a Bluewater townie. technically my rules for the differences in the family tree challenge recommend that she marry a garden club member, but they have a lot of chemistry. He became a garden club member quite soon after they married.

The two of them have been very, very very focused on their garden, almost to the exclusion of everything else. That’s why their kids are a little younger than some of the others. Their daughter, Heather, and their son Moss are kind of being left to their own devices.

I don’t know yet which one of them is going to inherit. I think it’s going to be whichever one has the lower relationship with their parents, because the point of this challenge is kind of for each generation to be the opposite of the one before.