Untold Moments: Saving Mariah, Part II

At the hospital, Caleb steeled his courage and made the call no one ever wants to make. He didn’t even get a chance to speak before he heard his wife’s panicked voice.

“Caleb! Did you find her?”

“Yeah,” Caleb said. “I found her.”

Untold Moments: Saving Mariah, Part I

Caleb and Cassandra were just getting their baby tucked into her crib for the night when the call came in.

Caleb felt his phone buzz in his pocket; it was always on vibrate these days to avoid waking up Lucy when she was asleep but a call this late at night was unusual. Normally it was Elodie calling him about the restaurant but Sapore Di Casa had closed for the day hours ago. Something in his gut told him something wasn’t right.

Untold Moments: Welcome Home, Mrs. Goth

Bella stared down at the divorce papers on the table, her hand hovering over the dotted line where she was supposed to put her signature. But no matter how loud her brain screamed at her hand to just write her name down and get it over with, her hand couldn’t obey.

She was scared.

Untold Moments: Doubts, Part II

Ebony hesitantly touched her wife’s shoulder as they left the orphanage.

“Hey… You okay? You were acting a bit… off in there towards the end of the visit. Is something wrong?”

Lilith hated lying to Ebony. It made her feel physically sick. Ebony was the only human woman Lilith had ever been with who knew what she was from the very beginning and it felt liberating. Even the parts of her that she didn’t want Ebony to see, like her dark form and how she hunted, she was honest with Ebony and told her she wanted to keep that part of who she was separate from their life together. And Ebony respected that. So to start lying to her now and lose that honesty made her stomach hurt… but how could she be honest and hurt her? How could she explain that she couldn’t give her wife a family after all because she was a monster who couldn’t feel love like a normal person?

Untold Moments: Doubts, Part I

“Nervous?” Ebony asked her wife. Lilith squeezed her hand with a grin.

“Yeah. But excited,” she said.

“Are you okay out here in the day? I did try to get a later appointment but I wanted us to have time to get to know the kids.”

“As long as the cloud cover keeps up, I’m good. Besides, we’re about to be inside, anyway.”

Untold Moments: A Forbidden Promise

It was all getting to be too much for Ebony Goth.

A controversial wedding between her sister and a vampire, her parents filing for divorce, and now almost losing her sister and niece to scary pregnancy complications. None of it directly affected her and yet all of it deeply affected her. Everything had always cut Ebony so much deeper than most people. She was such a sensitive soul that struggled to bloom her entire life under the constant barrage of bullying she was subjected to over her less-than-ideal looks.

Isla Paradiso Fixed Version

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I’ve been on a Sims 3 kick lately and anyone who’s ever played in Isla Paradiso knows first-hand this world is an unplayable mess. There’s lots of tutorials floating around about how to fix it and an empty version of Isla Paradiso you can download to cut down on the laggy mess this world causes. I don’t want an empty world, though. I want a cleaned up version that still has Sims to interact with.

I went about fixing up my Isla Paradiso according to Tatiana’s recommendations at Sims Community and figured I’d toss it up on my blog, mostly so I have a backup that can’t get lost on my computer but also to save other people some time getting this world to function.

So here’s my fixed up version of Isla Paradiso for your convenience.

Changes Made

• Palm trees between Port Primavera and Port Pescado have been removed. They overlapped with the road and caused routing failures.
• Fencing around palm trees in the center of the Spanish resort’s pool have been removed. The fencing would cause Sims to route fail trying to look at something there (possibly the lights?)
• Hobart’s Hideaway resort has been completely bulldozed. The entire lot is a lag fest.
• The Medina house has been edited to fix routing issues. The platform beside the top of the stairs has been fenced off and the spiral staircase and garage door have been removed.
• The Ichtaca house has been edited to fix routing issues. All spiral staircases have been removed and all objects on the upper floors have been deleted. The family can function fine on the lower floors of the house and the spiral stairs were causing routing failures. The rec room has been converted into a bedroom to accommodate the family on the first two floors.
• The Collins house has been edited to fix routing issues. The ladder going to the very top floor has been removed and all objects on the upper floor have been deleted. The family can function fine without accessing this floor.
• All empty houseboats have been completely bulldozed. Houseboats getting stuck in unroutable channels is a recipe for disaster.
• All inhabited houseboats have had their steering wheels destroyed. There is no reason for them to be moving their houseboats. They just get stuck in stupid places and create a lag fest.
• The Scott family has been completely annihilated and their houseboat has been bulldozed. This family and their home was corrupted.

Recommended Actions

The following are things I did not do in the interest of not ruining anyone’s gameplay in case they really want to play with these things but that I highly recommend doing as soon as you load into the game with your family.

• Use the cheat “testingcheatsenabled true” followed by the cheat “DiscoverAllUnchartedIslands” to instantly unlock all the hidden islands. The clouds covering them can lag up your game pretty bad.
• Go into the game options and disable the spawning of pets and horses. The game loves to put horses on houseboats and do other dumb things with the stray animals. They get stuck absolutely everywhere.
• I did actually do a quick check to make sure there were not already stray animals in the world but I still recommend you do another check as soon as you start playing this world after disabling strays in the options. If there are any wild or stray animals, annihilate them with the NRaas Master Controller mod.

Install Instructions

Download and unzip the file, then pop the Isla Paradiso FIXED.sims3 folder into Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 > Saves

I recommend making a copy of the folder and storing it somewhere else on your computer so you always have this default version you can pop into your Saves folder and play whenever you want to start a new save in this world. It will save you the hassle of redownloading it all the time.

DOWNLOAD – SFS, NO ADS

My First Friend Pose Pack (EARLY ACCESS)

This week, I bring you a set of five pose packs for kids, cats, and large dogs. Enjoy!

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• 4 couple poses for one child and one pet (2 with a cat, 2 with a large dog)
• 1 group portrait pose for 2 kids and 3 pets (2 cats and 1 large dog)
• Thumbnails and descriptions for all poses.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Andrew’s Pose Player
• Sim Teleporter
• Cats & Dogs expansion pack (of course)

HOW TO USE CUSTOM POSES

Check out this helpful video by Meek Games!

TOS

• DON’T reupload or edit!
• DON’T put behind a paywall (especially not Simsdom)!
• DON’T claim as your own!
• (Optional) DO tag me if you use them! I love seeing other people enjoying the stuff I make.

DOWNLOAD ON PATREON (Public Release: 08/29/21)

Echoes of Evermore Pose Pack (PUBLIC RELEASE)

Taylor Swift has been such a source of inspiration and comfort to me ever since I was a teenager learning to navigate this complicated thing called life with her music holding my hand along the way. I wanted to honour my hero with a pose pack that brought a small piece of her world to life. Thank you forevermore, Taylor.

Jax the Merdaddy, VI: Too Much of a Good Thing

After discovering that celebrity workaround with Judith, I used the same trick to help Jax along with impregnating the homeless celebrities from the Get Famous expansion pack. Jax temporarily had a house full of young attractive celebrity girls in his home. Not that he minded in the slightest.

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