I know! These were supposed to be out ages ago! Still, now is better than never, right? Because they’re a bit late, I haven’t managed to one last test on them, but I’m 99,9% certain they’ll work just fine (tomorrow family is coming to visit, friends the day after that and then there’s my birthday so I wanted to get these out now), but if you have problems please leave a note here and I’ll see what I can do

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Want to take a guess at who’s writing yet another post that have absolutely nothing to do with Harrington? It just might be me, but this time, I feel very justified (I did last time as well, but shhh xD). You see, a certain someone (that’d be me!) have been fiddling with things. Well, not just any thing but the dreaded Milkshape and came to the conclusion that, hey! I want to try something, what something? Well, you’ve either guessed by the preview picture, or you’re about to find out Read more »

I’m testing out a new writing style, so we’ll see how it goes!

2014-2015: Raiden Aspen is 33, Celia Garnet is 31

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Although neither one of us are all too stretched for cash (though Raiden recently changed careers, he can still support himself just fine) Raiden and I figured that’d it’s save us some expenses to live together. And besides, we used to share a dorm at university so it’s not very different, well, we get to decide what colours are rooms should be this time around! It took us awhile to settle on an apartment, we didn’t want to live on top of each other, but we also didn’t want to go over our budget. In the end we found a rather nice (and large!) apartment with two bedrooms and enough space for the both of us. The landlord seemed nice enough, though I admit, I winced when I saw how she styled her hair, it’s fine to do that for renfairs and conventions and what have you, but I’d have thought that a landlord might wear her hair more… Traditionally.

Oh well, on the bright side of things, I did get some shopping done at the new clothing store, Velvet. I should try to coax some of the more… interesting looking inhabitants of Harrington down there.

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I’ve been thinking a little about changing my defaults lately, the thing that’s kept me from it is that some of my sims use geneticized eyes/skins and so I’d have to make sure that they’d get a similar looking pair of eyes/skin if I did. However, testing would mean that they’d all end up with the wrong skin and well, I’m not in the mood to boot up my game only to test skins then turn it off again so I can play with my proper skins and eyes.

So, I decided to use the magic of Bodyshop to give me an idea of how it’d look if I changed, normally, I would skip showing off, but I’m proud of myself for being very good about remembering which content was used with each image. So, show off time!

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I’ve added a couple of new pages;

Regulations – a page with the general rules for Harrington as far as marriage, tax, university etc. goes, it’s still in development so I might shift things around as I try them out. Its content is heavily based on Lakeside Heights and Sullivan Sims (especially the latter), with some influences from the Build a City Challenge and me.

Stats – a page for well, stats, it’s horribly barren right now but that’s partly because I couldn’t come up with much to add and partly because Harrington is still a small hood. I’ll change as I go I guess

Custom Content – you probably figured that one out, but yeah, links to some of the custom content I use, it’s pretty much ripped from Vivienne Hamlet, but I’ll update it sometime soon (it’s still pretty darned accurate in some aspects)

Hacks – this too, is ripped from Vivienne Hamlet, though it’s pretty much exactly the same hack cocktail that I have now save a few newbies that I’ll get around to adding

You may, or may not, see a few pages dedicated to the various Households and their stats popping up soon, I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to do it. (If I do, it’d sort of be like Sullivan Sims’ sim profiles, only it’ll be separated by households as I doubt I’ll like the thought of maintaining individual sim pages).

I am however going to implement the season system that Sullivan uses, it’s easy enough for me to do without getting too detailed. It also allows me to keep track of birthdays if I want to. I won’t be able to put this into motion until I’m done playing this round though. If you’re curious these are the households I have left to play for this round: Enthycia-Gale, Eldon-Sweet and Mungo. I’ll hopefully get some playing done tonight and/or get the Aspen-Garnet update up.  Either way, it’s only three households and shouldn’t take me too long, after that Harrington will officially have a sensible season-centered system.

It took awhile, but finally there’s another post for Harrington!

2014: Baptista is 33, Clary is 32, Jared is 7 and Jaden is 4.

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They referred to it as “the incident” and for a few days after it happened, they spoke nothing of it, pretending that it never happened and trying to go about their lives as best as they could. If either Jaden or Jared picked up on anything, they never said anything to let their parents know. It was an odd sort of quiet between them, a space that hadn’t really existed before. To Clary, it should have been obvious that she wouldn’t go back to Arthur, and as she sat, trying to get a hold of the budget for her store, she kept an eye on him as he sat on the couch. As he moved to get up, her stomach clenched and she wondered if this would be the time when he finally spoke to her about what had happened. Instead he went for a walk and she sighed, she dreaded the conversation simply because she wasn’t sure if Baptista actually believed that she would go back to Arthur, and if he did, she wasn’t sure if she could trust him to know her. At the same time though, she wanted it over with, whatever happened it would be better than the uneasy quiet that was between them and the unsaid rule about distance. Depending on who worked the latest, she sometimes ended up on the couch, careful to get up and ready before the kids noticed where she’d slept.

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Horrible, horrible title I know, don’t sue me, please?

So, I’ve been gone/dead/away for awhile, I went into part “goodness I am sick of sims” and part “oh god, university, oh god” moods which is a good recipe for “nothing gets done” as far as I’m concerned. University is going fine, exams soon *stress* and some second-thoughts I’m not sure what to do with. Hence, I returned to simming because between that, roleplaying and general writing I should be able to have some retreats and have some things that’ll function as carrots in order to make me read and such.

Photobucket chewed on my pictures and made them ewww, but I’ve uploaded them to my domain and replaced them so they should be back to normal now. Let me know if they aren’t though! Updates are (believe it or not, coming) I missed my simmies and have been wondering about them since I took a break. Sims 3 just isn’t for me, so, Harrington is perfectly safe.

Now I’m going to eat my late-at-night dinner, re-read some things and then things should get back to, er, whatever the state was before “long ass hiatus of d00m” <_<

I’m also getting back onto the blog wagon, might take awhile to catch up with some guys since I’ve been semi-reading, but then I love catch-up reading (yes, I’m odd, I know) so I’ll be enjoying it anyhow XD

See you!

I’m terribly sorry that there has been no word from me for awhile, last week I was in Rome and the week before that I was getting sucked into the vortex that is Sims 3 as well as reading far too much. Either way, I’m fairly certain that you’ll begin to see updates again this week, I just need to play a bit first (and catch up on blogs, my RSS feed is bursting!)

At any rate, I’m not gone nor dead or anything else, and updates will be coming soon! I’m quite excited, I’ll get to play Arthur, Celia, Raiden, Geraint (you’ll learn more about him) and Socrates, it’ll be fun!

Well, this is part 2 of the long-ish update from the Enthycia-Gale household. This one continues more or less from the point where the first part ended (in other words, we’re not suddenly jumping from summer to winter).

It didn’t take very long before Celia too became a frequent visitor to the Enthycia-Gale household, one can wonder if she visited because she actually liked Poppy and Pomona or if she simply dropped by in the hopes that she’d pick up juicy gossip. At either rate it seemed like there was something going on in the house these days. Whenever Celia got there Pomona would follow Poppy around, trying to talk to her, talking about love and all the difficulties that came along with it.

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It’s been quite quiet from this corner of the web for a little while, however I have actually been doing sim-stuff (as well as vacation-stuff and lazy-stuff)… It just hasn’t been related to Harrington. At any rate I’m back and I’m bringing updates

This is part one of two entries that took place while I was playing Pomona and Poppy’s house. I split them in two as they’d be far too long to read in one sitting (this one is four pages long with a total of 27 pictures).

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One can wonder what thoughts went through Pomona’s head as she stood in the kitchen/living room screaming her head off. Maybe she thought “never again!” or perhaps she was wondering where the hell Poppy was and what was taking her so long? Either way, it’s safe to say that Pomona was not feeling anything but severe pain and an urge to curse men to hell and back.

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