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#151
1st Nov 2018 at 10:17 PM
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Roderick and Ros Kapitha thought it would be a good idea to get some friends together and loiter in the Isla Del Kashmire Cemetery instead of trick or treat. Ros thinks she's too old but Roderick would disagree. He only agreed to Ros's idea to ghost hunt because Kaylee Piper was coming along and he thought that could put him in a position to comfort her if she got scared.
And look, it worked:
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This, by the way is the Orbinson Family Mausoleum where Kent, Joy, Milo, Jana, and Kerry's souls are resting. Who knows how the Kapitha twins go a key to it.
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A random spectral Dog, not one I remember being owned by any Orbinson gives Roderick a scare for trespassing. Maybe it's Kaylee's turn to comfort him.
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Jana's ghost appears after the teens get out and she's just so lonely, she wanted to haunt them.
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#152
2nd Nov 2018 at 11:15 PM
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I'm not sure how to leave a comment in this format. I hope it goes where it's supposed to go.
What a lovely guide through several generations of unique family members. I love the way you include photos of each person over the years, and all the detail (when, why, with whom). The favorite sibling question is so interesting and different. And the glimpses inside the homes...well I love to take a peek at the way personalities are reflected in living spaces. It took me a while to meander through and that is a very good thing!
What a lovely guide through several generations of unique family members. I love the way you include photos of each person over the years, and all the detail (when, why, with whom). The favorite sibling question is so interesting and different. And the glimpses inside the homes...well I love to take a peek at the way personalities are reflected in living spaces. It took me a while to meander through and that is a very good thing!
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31st Dec 2018 at 4:11 AM
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@jain - I got the comment just fine, thank you for dropping one
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UPDATE
So I did a little project (and by little I mean about 5 hours) where I got pics of all my playable sims. A majority are ones that I either made, or were born from sims I made originally. A few other simmers' sims are in the population (SummerGlau, MaryanneSims, and Isamajor) that I had downloaded in the past, and then my sister's sims plus friends that visited that I made make me some sims round out the population. Many you have seen in previous posts in this thread but many you have not! I hope to bring you more family posts and updates in 2019.
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#154
22nd Jun 2019 at 10:59 PM
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My hood has been on hold game play-progress-wise but I did take up hosting a 'Modelling Show' on Facebook. I made a copy of my Kashmire hood to run the 'show' - it's filled with other people's lady sim applicants competing to win Kashmire's Next Top Model. I have always been a fan of ANTM and as you can see, taking sim pics. If you would like to follow the show, it's on this public page - you do not have to have a a Facebook Account to look at it.
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Anyway, here are my contestants and makeovers. You can see a sampling of each photoshoot in the MTS sim art sims 2 thread or to see the entire shoots, those are on my tumblr . Here are the episode album links:
Episode 1 | 1.5
Episode 2 | 2.5
Episode 3 | 3.5
Episode 4 | 4.5
Episode 5 | 5.5
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I hope you enjoy my pics! Let me know if you happen to follow and if you have a favorite model! Thanks
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#155
24th Jun 2019 at 10:44 PM
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As you know, I am tremendously behind, so I will be commenting on things you posted long ago. I just have to say some things, even though your game is probably way past these points.
The Father's Day post:
The picture of Halen Louis and his girls perfectly captures their relationship. I like how proud he is of his unique daughters, and how they love him.
It's fitting that the Orbinson family picture is a more staged, official photo.
The Adagio Hart picture looks like they were posing for a photograph and Hazel couldn't stop herself from throwing her arms around him. I like it.
Anton Kapitha is maybe missing out on a bit by not being able to show his love in any but a physical way, but the kids have a good balance between their two parents.
Apartments & SCIA:
How fun that you built a headquarters and badges, and worked out a whole hierarchy for your SCIA agents.
Spooky Post:
Sneaky sneaky Roderick! It worked, though.
Next Top Model:
That sounds like a lot of fun. I like how very different the models are from each other. If I get around to reading the episodes, I may change my mind, but, being a redhead myself, I'm partial to Liliana and Felicity at the moment.
The Father's Day post:
The picture of Halen Louis and his girls perfectly captures their relationship. I like how proud he is of his unique daughters, and how they love him.
It's fitting that the Orbinson family picture is a more staged, official photo.
The Adagio Hart picture looks like they were posing for a photograph and Hazel couldn't stop herself from throwing her arms around him. I like it.
Anton Kapitha is maybe missing out on a bit by not being able to show his love in any but a physical way, but the kids have a good balance between their two parents.
Apartments & SCIA:
How fun that you built a headquarters and badges, and worked out a whole hierarchy for your SCIA agents.
Spooky Post:
Sneaky sneaky Roderick! It worked, though.
Next Top Model:
That sounds like a lot of fun. I like how very different the models are from each other. If I get around to reading the episodes, I may change my mind, but, being a redhead myself, I'm partial to Liliana and Felicity at the moment.
#156
18th Oct 2019 at 6:49 AM
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Oh @Cher64 - no need to apologize. I'm actually way behind. Job stuff really ramped up this year so I've clocked a lot less hours in game overall in 2019. But I'm keepin' on and thank you so, so much in your continued interest no matter how long it takes you to reply
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On point as usual in your observances about the father's day posts - especially about the Orbinson picture. Prim and Proper is their game, appearances are the most important asset they have so their photo is a bit stiff and professional.
The SCIA project came to be when I entered a short story contest on a sims FB group last summer. I had to be a bit extra about it though to go as far to make badges and a whole building. I finally published the short story on MTS! Here it is in case you want to check it out!
Roderick is STILL flirting like his life depends on it with Kaylee - even a year later! See below Fall pics for more teen shenanigans. His sister isn't there to interrupt him this time XD
My Modeling show is still going slowly but surely. I've made it up to the 6th Photoshoot! I too, have a soft spot for red-headed models. I find myself cheering for them on other people's sims modeling shows. It's just such a dynamic color and a great autumn color as well!
UPDATE
So Autumn is my favorite season and going on theme with last year's autumn pictures, I did a new batch featuring Roderick Kapitha, his cousin Xander Hart, and their two main squeezes, Lydia Mae MacKenzie and Kaylee Piper - who are the most popular teens in Kashmire at the moment and if Kaylee ever agreed to be Roderick's official girlfriend, they'd be the ultimate power couples! I used the Memosa Bay Regional Park as the back drop for some autumn-y pictures.
They make piles of leaves to jump in before and after
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Xander gives Lydia Mae a kiss in the park gazebo. He's so smooth now
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Roderick tries to catch up on some homework but is obviously distracted by Kaylee.
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This is a picture of Xander and Roderick last year, around this time, just playing foot ball and not having anyone to date. I entered this one into the MTS calendar contest but it didn't get in (a different one I took for winter did)
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Here's Bonus pic of Kaylee and Roderick from last winter
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“Is that…mistletoe?” Roderick peers upward, wondering why Kylee pulled him a bit closer.
”It is,” she smiles with a sly air.
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In addition to these autumn pics, I was tagged in a fun little character questionnaire by @nayahn1 about what kind of fall things a sim would prefer and I picked Franz Schoulsburg, that strong silent type sim I have and made a few pictures depicting a few of his preferences.
He would rather pick apples than do a hay ride, because apples can be made into pie and hay is just itchy.
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He likes scary more than sweet, that's just how he's been perceived most of his life and is used to it. It also keeps people from bothering him.
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He Would rather bake pies than cookies. Something about autumn really inspires him to bake pies and also it's family tradition.
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Franz has always like cats, his family has three so he would take a black cat over an owl. Strays seem to like him.
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100% Franz would pick reading over writing. He basically taught himself on books, books are everything to him. one of his favorite spots to read is the tree in his back yard, it's very tall and hard to climb but once he is up there no one will find him for hours so it's a good hiding place.
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I almost forgot Melinda Cosgrove and Marty Calhoun finally got married (much to their scheming parents' pleasure), and went to Three Lakes on their honeymoon - all pics here
Then, they bought a house in Isla Del Kashmire and welcomed two new bundles of Calhoun into their lives, a son named Alexander and another on the way! Marty, like his brother, Jimmy, was looking for a specific job in the science career but an opening never happened so now he's a willing stay-at-home dad for his kid and writes novels from home when Alex is napping. Melinda works with her sister in the same architecture firm.
Here is a new family pic of all 3 generations of Calhoun men. L to R (Bryce, Jimmy, Ash, Marty, and Alexander)
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In sadder news, a fire broke out in the home of Shandi Wellington - if you recall, she was the elder widowed mother with two daughters who was having a tough time making ends meet. It's now worse for poor Janine and Adela - luckily Janine is old enough to take care of Adela but since they really have no family ties (they have relatives but are not close with them at all) it's going to be tough moving forward.
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Thanks for reading, hopefully I will not wait 6 months until the next update!
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#157
18th Oct 2019 at 6:00 PM
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OMG the way he sidelooks at the camera while he's picking apples! Perhaps it wasn't intentional, but he looks soooo sexy
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18th Oct 2019 at 6:01 PM
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Fall is my favorite season and I love seeing the pictures.
Until you got to cats over owls (though I am allergic to cats, I'd still prefer one over an owl), I thought I had nothing at all in common with Franz! I, too, would much rather read than write.
How nice to see a picture of the generations of Calhoun men. The little ones will really treasure that at some point.
Poor Adela and Janine. I hope life will be kinder to them in the future, but it looks like it will be quite rough for a while.
Until you got to cats over owls (though I am allergic to cats, I'd still prefer one over an owl), I thought I had nothing at all in common with Franz! I, too, would much rather read than write.
How nice to see a picture of the generations of Calhoun men. The little ones will really treasure that at some point.
Poor Adela and Janine. I hope life will be kinder to them in the future, but it looks like it will be quite rough for a while.
#159
18th Feb 2020 at 6:36 AM
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@nayhan1 - He does have rather striking eyes, even when avoiding eye contact. It wasn't intentional from a picture standpoint but it fits his narrative!
@Cher64 - I'm glad you loved my fall pictures. Winter has been cold and busy
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UPDATE
As we saw last update, Roderick Kapitha has been trying (and failing) to convince Kaylee Piper to date him for over a year. Roderick is the 2nd most date-able guy in the high school. Plenty of his peers have their eye on him but they just can never sway his eyes from Kaylee Piper.
It's not that Kaylee likes to lead people on, but she doesn't want to go all in on a relationship if she doesn't *feel* it. And despite their single bolt of chemistry and max relationship points, it didn't seem any amount of Roderick's flirting and advances ever made her heart thrash against her chest and her knees go weak.
Roderick was always just...Rockerick. A Goofy, show-off, jock constantly trying to gain her affection. Until now. She rolled a want to fall in love with Roderick and I, as the Goddess of Kashmire, tried to make it happen!
First off, he has to look cool. So Roderick nicked his Dad's sports convertible to take Kaylee out.
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He took Kaylee to Winter Park for some ice skating. Roderick is a season skater but Kaylee is a bit unstable. It wasn't long before he had both her hands in his to keep her upright.
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Next he has to take a break and get a cappuccino. Flirting with his future girlfriend takes a lot of energy!
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He plays off a close, tight hug as trying to warm Kaylee up. (Is he smooth enough she'd fall for it?)
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He stops beating around the bush and finally asks her again, if she'd be willing to be his girlfriend. He's been in love with her ever since he found out girls didn't actually have cooties. His fingers are metaphorically crossed and any teen girls in the area are not liking this development.
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But Kaylee and Roderick hardly notice, as Kaylee agrees and they are official
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Melody has never seen her son like this. She sees herself in him.
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For she has the same kind of quirky flirting and passion for her studly, strong, and silent-type husband, Anton. She really likes his butt and his undivided attentions.
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Anton, in turn, may not say much but he knows a midnight snack when he sees one.
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She's also one to sneak outside to get the best view of his ass-sets.
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And Anton plays into her gestures of admiration
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He'll even join her outside, as not to disturb their kids.
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Yet, Ros knows what they are up to and thinks they are weirdos.
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She just doesn't understand, not like Roderick who now has love reciprocated.
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18th Feb 2020 at 5:34 PM
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Isn't it funny that everyone would date Roderick except the one person he really wants to date? I'm happy for him that she finally gave him a chance. I love the picture of them with the blonde in the pink vest looking horrified.
Melody and Anton are hilarious together! Poor, traumatized Ros.
Melody and Anton are hilarious together! Poor, traumatized Ros.
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Squeeee!!! They're all so beautiful!! And I love watching Roderick and Kaylee together. Great pics *Can finally see everything*
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So happy to see this neighbourhood is still going! Loving all the sim pics
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15th Nov 2020 at 4:26 AM
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@Cher64 - Thanks for the comment! Ros will be fine, she got over it pretty fast but still hates it when her parents do PDA. Roderick and Kaylee are the cutest, I was shuffling through old pics and even saw one where Roderick had just turned teen and was having Kaylee dance on his feet since she was still a kid.
@yaolicious - Hello again! Always love seeing you drop in and comment! Thank you! I hope your access still works!
@xSparrow - It's still running! My problem is keeping the thread updated so if you want to read more below is an info dump with pics (and links)!
UPDATES
MINI STORIES
Ok since this thread got bumped to the second page of social groups it's probably high time I updated. Lots of stuff actually has been happening in my game, it's just kind of a pain to upload pics to a separate site to have them in line here. I created a handful of 'mini stories' over 2020 that can be found on the Sims 2 Facebook Group (it's a great group full of active TS2 players!) Some of these stories go into detail of families I haven't posted about yet on this thread.
Mini Story 1: Mystery of the Hart feat. Hazel Hart
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Synopsis: Is sixteen really that sweet? For Hazel Hart it seems pretty average, until a new student arrives at her school.
Link for the Album/Story (if you can join the FB group)
Mini Story 2: Not Another Teen Party feat. Cedar Wellington + handful of Kashmire teens
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Synopsis: Cedar Wellington is handsome, popular, and romantic. He hatches a plan to pursue one of the most eligible teen bachelorettes in Kashmire.
Link for the Album/Story (if you can join the FB group)
Mini Story 3: For the Love of... feat. the MacKenzie Family
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Synopsis: Gina Mackenzie has had a life of ups and downs. But what goes up must come down as she endures the loss of her lover and father of her children. They too, must deal with loss and learn to love. After all, they say it is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Link for the Album/Story (if you can join the FB group)
Mini Story 4: Mother's Daughter feat. Elle and Eris King
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Synopsis: Eris King has spent her whole life wondering about how her life would have been if her mother was a part of it. Now it's time to find out.
Link for the Album/Story (if you can join the FB group)
Mini Story 5: A Tale of Two Houses feat. Nick Hart
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Synopsis: College can be a confusing time. For the roommates in the Sim State Brownstone and for the ladies in the Cosgrove Scholarship House.
Link for the Album/Story (if you can join the FB group)
Mini Story 6: Ocean Girl feat. Amelia Wellington
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Synopsis: Amelia Wellington, youngest twin by five minutes, has always love the ocean. 'Obsessed' some might say. Through her determination and creativity she has finally reached some of her dreams!
Link for the Album/Story (if you can join the FB group)
Speaking of Amelia, I created a video featuring her Srufboard Shop business!
VACATIONS & BUILDING
This year I have also re-vamped both Takemizu Village and Twikkii Island lots plus added more, and released lot tour videos of the remodels for Takemizu:
Lodging
Community Lots
And then the Wellingtons went on vacation there (sorry! another FB Album Link)
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I did a big project I mentioned in the main thread about what's Happening in Your Game, where I created 7 backwoods hiking trails to simulate a backpacking, rustic vacation in Three Lakes. Adagio Hart and his family went on vacation there. (Yay! an Imgur album of details)
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Twikkii Videos to come!
I also nabbed Zarathustra's golf course and converted it to a tropical terrain for Kashmire Point!
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Let's see...what else?
SIMS LIVES
Oh! Victoria and Sawyer FINALLY got married!
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Link for the Honeymoon/Story (if you can join the FB group)
Mira Cosgrove designed a new skating rink!
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KAPITHA GROWTH!
This was the original thread about the Kapithas, in case you wanted context.
Took Family Pics of all the Kapithas back in the spring - all four elder siblings (+ living spouses), their kids (+ spouses), and grandkids:
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Jag Garcia (Tibbys Son), Tibby Garcia ('nee Kapitha), Mercedes & Marquez Sanchez (Seychelle's Kids), Seychelle (Tibby's daughter) & Salvatore Sanchez
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Roderick & Rosaline Kapitha, Rayon & Olivia Kapitha, Anton & Melody Kaptiha
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Ori Kaptiha and his son, Angelo Sanchez - Angelo's mother is Salvatore's older sister, full disclosure, but they are not married.
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Fernando & Yasmine Kapitha, their kids - Laika, Shreya, and Shalin
And then over the course of playing, Laika and the Sanchez twins grew up!
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AUTUMN 2020!
And finally here were most recent Autumn pics for 2020 featuring Alanna Thackery, The Male Hart cousins plus YA Cedar Wellington, and K. Yamorika
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So yeah that's a lot and there's always more! Thank you for reading!
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Lots of great pictures. Can't pick a favourite. Thank you for sharing. I hope one day I'll be able to discover your stories on FB (not really my thing
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I think I should hire you to revamp my Takemizu.
I'm sure your sims enjoy yours more than my vanilla one.
Lots of great pictures. Can't pick a favourite. Thank you for sharing. I hope one day I'll be able to discover your stories on FB (not really my thing
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I think I should hire you to revamp my Takemizu.
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@Charmful Lots of great pictures. Can't pick a favourite. Thank you for sharing. I hope one day I'll be able to discover your stories on FB (not really my thing ![]() I think I should hire you to revamp my Takemizu. ![]() |
@Essa - Sorry it's been a year since my last update and that I hadn't responded! I DO appreciate your comment and keep it close to my heart! I have done a metric ton of stuff with my hood since last November (and apologies if you already some of it, since I have sprinkled a bit of happenings in the main thread about what's happening in your game), it's almost daunting to try to put it all into one post but I am going to try to segment out events in 2022, which is YEAR 15 of Kashmire's existence
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I would love to revamp your Takemizu
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Video of the wedding venue
Visit Takemizu Promo Vid
Yellow Rose Hideaway pictures
I started a re-vamp of my entire 'Pandora' downtown (desert hood) - to make it more attractive to weekend tourists. Kashmire Point has also been growing in the tourism industry.
And the sims! So many sims have grown up within the last year. I have a whole child-teen collection images of Mira and Jimmy's family, baby Bryce isn't such a baby anymore - he's a teen in Private school
I did a giant Hart Family Album status for 2021 - some pics you might have seen on MTS or even in this thread before before but gathered a bunch through space and I overlaid the family pics with some fun facts and edited a bunch into polaroid snapshots - it's a great read for the family history in the five years since I first wrote about them, especially info on the Hart Side Cousins - which there ended up being 15 of!
And finally, to keep this post semi-short and sweet, if you were curious about that 'Mystery of the Hart' story I posted a year ago, as the first 'mini story' above, then I'm delighted to say that 'mini' story ballooned into almost 300 pictures and 10 parts - it is now complete and ready to be viewed NOT on Facebook. You can view it here !
Tagging @Cher64 @Yaoilicious @xSparrow - just because it's been a long time, this social groups section is kind off the beaten path to check on, and you might be interested in an update or at least some of the pretty pictures that I've linked to! Cheers!
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15 years, that's awesome! It's great to see you posting here again.
The Takemizo wedding venue is gorgeous.
I've really enjoyed the Hart Family Album, and I had to laugh out loud when I reached Nick and he had been given an alignment. I love it!
Hazel and Erik's story was something else, and a lot of fun to read. I'm not sure it's a great idea to have them in the same house, unless Adagio is planning to retire and never leave them alone.
The Takemizo wedding venue is gorgeous.
I've really enjoyed the Hart Family Album, and I had to laugh out loud when I reached Nick and he had been given an alignment. I love it!
Hazel and Erik's story was something else, and a lot of fun to read. I'm not sure it's a great idea to have them in the same house, unless Adagio is planning to retire and never leave them alone.
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15 years, that's awesome! It's great to see you posting here again. The Takemizo wedding venue is gorgeous. I've really enjoyed the Hart Family Album, and I had to laugh out loud when I reached Nick and he had been given an alignment. I love it! Hazel and Erik's story was something else, and a lot of fun to read. I'm not sure it's a great idea to have them in the same house, unless Adagio is planning to retire and never leave them alone. ![]() |
Thank you so much, I love to share, it's just a task and half to get all the info compiled. Curating stories and pictures is work! I do want to update more often, I have so much content to share about my hood from 2020-2021.
I was looking for some fun fillers to lay down over the photo and D&D alignment chart seemed fitting ahaha, so I did that with all the cousins!
Thanks for reading my story! I'm glad it's finally done, not that I wanted to hurry through it, but I'd been laying out the narrative for Adagio's career as a secretive SCIA agent and the tension with keeping it from Hazel for more than five years, so it's such a relief that it culminated into this long form story.
I'm sure Adagio and Erik talked a lot before Erik and his sister moved in. There were probably rules laid down like 'No funny business in my home with my daughter' and Erik likes life, so he's not gonna break that. Out of respect for Adagio for allowing him this huge favor. However, Adagio didn't say anything about 'outside his home '
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28th Jun 2022 at 12:45 AM
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UPDATE JUNE 2022
1. The Kashmire of yesterday is shedding all of its weird corruptions from over the years and starting anew like a butterfly emerging from a cacoon! Lord Crumps did an honestly shocking and amazing project where he re-constructed Kashmire from all the lots, to all the sims, to each of their personalities so it will be like I'm picking up right where I left off! It was a three-month-long project from March-May 2022 and I'm currently in the throes of finishing up creating custom townies, dormies, downtownies, Bon Voyage tourists and locals. I've been slipping in easter egg names to some of them based on my favorite fellow simmers and creators in the sims 2 community over the years. Names like 'Zara Thustra' and 'Dee-Dee' as well as 'Tricia Manly' so I guess I will get a little kick out of seeing their sim manifestations running around in the background!
2. Before that project I will say Pandora BOOMED in 2021. I focused on growth in the small desert downtown which now has many more attractions including a mini-golf course , a teen hostel, a 'racercade' which is just an outdoor place to play arcade games and race remote control cars, there's a horse ranch (pending horses), a new trailer park, a retirement community, a vineyard (unowned), a train station, well here's a post I made on my Tumblr with some pictures. I also went all-in on some canyon deco post-Kashmire 2.0 to give it some more deserty flair!
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3. I finished 'MYSTERY OF THE HART' but Erik and Hazel are still going strong and are currently young adults. Here's the epilogue to that story and plus I wrote a series of 10 picture posts/vignettes about their romance from Erik's POV and if anyone wants to read it, just let me know because it's a mix of links and some are NSFW so aren't publically posted anywhere. However, I am starting an official sequel about them and their adventures in the next stage of life!
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4. Speaking of stories I started a new one called 'A WEEK AWAY ' revolving around some of my younger teens on a class trip to (remodeled) Three Lakes. It's currently a WIP but has over 400 pictures available with a captioned storyline. And there are a few short stories to read before that might shed some light on how the characters are.
Supplemental Background story 1 - 'A HYPOTHESIS AMONG A FRIENDSHIP'
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Supplemental Background story 2 - 'WHOLESOME SIBLINGS'
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Supplemental Background story 3 - 'IT'S SOMETHING'
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Synopsis: A High School Trip! What could go wrong? It's suspected to be an eventful time with a handful of teens in Three Lakes with exactly one chaperone! Pining among the pines. Hot encounters in hot springs. Betrayal among friends and siblings. Someone is going to need a hot cocoa and a hug.
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5. I ran a Bachelor Auction last fall at the Kashmire Point Country Club to get some of my single sims out on some serious dates!
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That's really the big thing for now. I have loads more content in bits I post in the Facebook Group if anyone is inclined to take part in that, but I understand if not!
Thanks for reading my update
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Since I update so infrequently I think it's probably best to tag any of those interested to let them know. Going off the past few posts I think that would be @nayahn1 @Yaoilicious @xSparrow @Essa and @Cher64 if anyone else is interested in keeping up with these or doesn't want to be tagged you can PM me and I'll put you on or take you off the tag list!
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12th Jul 2022 at 11:01 PM
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Thank you keeping me tagged on your updates; I love seeing what's happening in your game. There is always plenty to catch up on!
I want to say that I am a big fan of Colleen's "F around and find out" philosophy. I have used that phrase myself, though not with the follow-through violence!![Big Grin](//static.modthesims2.com/images/smilies/icon_smile_big.gif)
My favorite thing, though, was the after-auction socializing at the end of the First Ever Kashmire Bachelor Auction.
Thanks for another great, and entertaining, update!
I want to say that I am a big fan of Colleen's "F around and find out" philosophy. I have used that phrase myself, though not with the follow-through violence!
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My favorite thing, though, was the after-auction socializing at the end of the First Ever Kashmire Bachelor Auction.
Thanks for another great, and entertaining, update!
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1st Aug 2022 at 8:04 PM
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CECILY |
It's really interesting to go back and read the Louis family after Miles and Cecily (not saying more because possible spoiler). She comes across as pretty much the same dedicated and professional scientist, not maybe as bullied by her sister as she is now. Her relationship with her parents and siblings and what impact that has on the relationship with Miles is illuminating. She can use the acceptance and moral support as much as he. Also she's beautiful!
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2nd Jan 2023 at 6:41 AM
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Tagging those who may still be interested in the happenings of Kashmire!
@nayahn1 @Yaoilicious @xSparrow @Essa and @Cher64 @jain @bbostic8 @NikkaSimms @freelala
Since it's been roughly six months since my last update I'm doing another one to wrap up 2022 and start of 2023!
Kashmire has been moving and changing constantly with hood deco, new lots, and new sims. Scandalica City and Memosa Bay, in particular, have been lit up into beautiful nightscapes because I learned how to light up hood deco around early autumn.
Kashmire Point and Pandora have become the best places for local tourism and retirees to settle in because of their warmer climates.
A lot of my updates are in the Facebook Group if you want the full nitty-gritty of everything that's happened (new builds, small lore updates via gameplay), but I understand if anyone doesn't like to use it so I have put a lot of pictures into Imgur albums to share to those who don't. Or you can always scroll through my Tumblr for pictures. Currently, I have my '100 pics of 2022' series just released!
1. The Hood and Subhoods in 2022
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As mentioned, I went to town dressing up my two major cities with hood deco. Here is an album with more pictures.
I made a slice-of-life video of Scandalica City which was really fun!
Here's a walk-through video of the new Memosa Bay Flora Research Lab
I built a whole bunch of things this year - A mini golf course for Kashmire Point, Bus Stops for every sub-region, I rebuilt Alberto Crecensio's home, The Flora research center, two dog parks in the major cities. Remodeled the Memosa Bay Plaza and Regional park and then remodeled a bunch of coffee shops, the Scandalica City Recreational Center. I don't think any new businesses were opened but Panora's Pleasure House was remodeled and renamed the WAP.
2. Of Plants and Players
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This was a story I started in August. The springboard for it was the Bachelor Auction that I linked in the previous post. It follows Miles Piper and Cecily Louis's romance, she bid on him at the auction. The story is currently in progress but up to six parts so far.
Synopsis: A natural scientist with high expectations and a video game designer with a string of failed romances fall hard and fast for each other after she purchases a date with him for a charity event bachelor auction. What do they have in common? What doesn’t click? How can they navigate complex family issues and most of all, how can they make this work when their histories in the dating department point to it being nearly impossible?
You can Read it HERE
3. From Ruskslovia, with Love
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I just cannot quit Hazel Hart and Erik Denholm. They are my #1 fave couple at the moment and I had to continue their story as Young Adults. This is ongoing with slow updates, part III is currently underway. I also have built a new subhood but it's outside of Kashmire and solely for story purposes.
Synopsis: Hazel Hart couldn’t be happier! She has a loving family, a doting boyfriend, is doing well at Uni but she is soon finding out that plans go astray. How far is Hazel Hart willing to go for love?
You can Read it HERE
I also completed the 4 Seasons photos of them!
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4. Family Photos Galore!
This year I made a LOT of family photos.
We have Mother's Day Features:
1. AVIVA SANCHEZ
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Aviva Sanchez never pictured herself as a mother, yet she ended up being one nine months after a passionate night out with one of her best friends that had been missing for a half-decade.
She blames the alcohol.
She and that friend decided to co-parent the result of that night. Not a mistake per se, but a very unexpected, unplanned, surprise. Angelo.
Aviva grew up with younger siblings, she knew how to take care of children, and raising only one wasn’t very hard for her in comparison. It hasn’t been a complete picnic but she knew the basics–she actually had more of a hands-off approach with Angelo who is fifteen years old. She didn’t want to be controlling, she wanted him to learn how to make his own decisions with as little influence from her as possible. She is more or less satisfied with how her son has turned out.
There might have been a few rough patches, where Angelo came home with five piercings on his face after he handed her a permission slip to sign, and either she wasn’t paying attention or he didn’t tell her what it was for and she just signed it…trusting it was for a school thing. You can bet she thoroughly read the next paper he thrust at her to gain her signature.
Angelo doesn’t go out of his way to be deceitful but he does try to get her attention. Her very hands-off method of parenting has left Angelo wanting for approval and communication which he’s tried to navigate himself and is fairly good at by watching others. He wants to show himself off and have her know him, his likes, and his interests but she seems unconcerned if anything, which makes him sad because he would like to know her more.
It’s clear he’s taken on a rather laisse-fair attitude in his life based on her influence. Nothing has ever been urgent or important to Aviva, or so it’s seemed. Her hackles are hardly ever raised, neither is her voice, and any worrying she’s done has been in private. Since she has no expectations of him, he’s free to do as he pleases within reason, and while he does love that aspect of her parenting approach he still wouldn’t mind if she gave him a curfew or asked him how his day at school went.
2. SONATA GREYSTONE
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It’s kind of ironic that all Sonata Greystone could think about was boys in her teenage years and now has ended up with a house full of them. Being the youngest of the Hart siblings by two minutes, she is the one who has had the most children.
Which has been a freaking roller coaster.
Her sons are Noah, Ryder, Kingston, and Gavin. Ranging in age from 3 to 17.
She’s moved towns twice and her fourth son wasn’t even planned! She’s had to relocate her eldest son to her brother-in-law’s farm due to space concerns and on top of that she owns a pottery business and her husband was recently laid off!
She’s done her very best to be loving and caring toward her family but there are days she just wants to lock herself out on the back patio with a bottle of wine and make vases without having to hear her kids fighting, crying, talking on the phone, or asking her for money.
She feels incredibly guilty for asking Noah to move out and live with people he didn’t even know very well but he makes sure to visit every weekend and she is at least happy that he’s made friends, and is learning to inspect crops on his uncle’s farm. Noah may have felt resentful and expendable at first but soon found having a room to himself and peace and quiet was a great thing he’d been missing out on at home.
She is so very thankful for Ryder’s willingness to lend a helping hand with his youngest brother; she considers him the child with the sweetest temperament. He’s always aiming to ease her burdens and is quick to see her composure unraveling.
Kingston makes her laugh the most and was her ‘baby’ for the longest time. One of her favorite memories was going on a camping trip with her family and listening to her sons tell ghost stories because they are creative and remarkable. She feels she can hardly keep up with all of them! Noah has a girlfriend, Ryder is dating, and Kingston is being bullied?
Then, along came Gavin, the cute bundle of ‘lets-shake-up-the-status-quo’, totally unplanned, yet totally needed in a sense. He at least made it so Ryder wouldn’t develop a middle-child syndrome. She dotes on Gavin, naturally since he is the youngest and Kingston was not used to sharing the attention.
She’s had to break up fights, patch up scraped knees, scold bad behavior, and she expected to when she and her husband decided to start a family–just not x4. But she loves her boys immensely and wouldn’t trade them for the world.
3. RHAPSODY COSGROVE
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Rhapsody Cosgrove is Sonata’s twin sister. Rhapsody is much more of a careful sim than her sister; she rarely takes risks and is meticulous with planning. She doesn’t get a thrill from the unknown like Sonata always has–and has seen Sonata go through some rough times because of it.
However, Rhapsody is exceedingly creative and despite her penchant for planning and dislike for plans going astray, she is significantly less high-strung because she has far less stress in her life. Maybe it’s because her children are so mild-mannered and well-behaved in comparison to her nephews, which was a concentrated effort on her and her husband’s part to be firm yet encouraging, stressing hard work yet making time to have fun on their adventure as parents. Her husband is very logical while her creativity evens out their influences on their children.
Caleb takes so much after his father, yet his interest in comics comes from his mother. She influenced that by showing him different types of art styles, and the printing process that rendered comics intrigued him immensely and before he knew it he started collecting them. He’s considerate, intelligent, and generous and she adores that he’s bloomed and sort of come into his own as a self-assured young man as he can be at sixteen.
Colleen has always been her mother’s little shadow and her look-a-like. A skittish little girl with a big imagination, Colleen wasn’t apt at making friends or putting herself out there and Rhapsody knows that all too well, being a late bloomer herself. She worried if her children would have as rough a time as she did at that age, and Colleen has just started high school. She wants to push Colleen to be more outgoing but also knows Colleen will put herself out there when she feels comfortable. For now, Colleen retreats into her studies, writing, and books to entertain herself but knows she can always talk to her mother about anything.
Both of her kids are close with her, and she loves sitting down with them on Saturday mornings and eating pancakes that her husband or she makes, secretly hoping her recipe is better but the kids won’t spill which they like better. Rhapsody is sure it’s a ploy to just eat more pancakes.
4. YASMINE KAPITHA
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Yasmine Kapitha is of an entrepreneurial mind and has the philosophy ‘it can always be better.” She joined the large Kapitha family when she married their youngest son after meeting him as a young adult at school. She is not a native Kashmirian but was a transfer student at Sim State University. Her parents passed away so joining a large family was very comforting to her and she tries to give back to them as much as she can.
She’s contributed to the Kapitha legacy in more ways than one. Not only is she the mother to three bright, young, Kapithas but also started up the Calypso Cafe, a family restaurant naming it after the Kapitha’s matriarch, her mother-in-law.
She has a warm presence within her family overall but sometimes her serious and ambitious side is something to contend with.
Her twins, Shreya and Shalin are a handful and Yasmine finds trying to usher or corral them to do anything is nearly impossible. She sent them off to summer camp last year so they could expend that wild energy. They are both 10 years old–Shreya chatters endlessly about her favorite television shows and Shalin wants to learn how to skateboard which Yasmine has forbidden as of now since he can’t seem to walk up the stairs without tripping.
She demands more of Laika because Lai is the eldest and therefore has more responsibility. She may butt heads with her eldest daughter at times but it’s nothing a calm conversation in a few hours won’t smooth over when Laika is done being a dramatic teenager.
Lai is expected to have good grades, broaden her horizons with school activities, and under no circumstance is she allowed to date until she’s graduated. Yasmine nor her husband like the idea of Lai being distracted from her school work which she’s worked so hard to achieve the top grades in.
They’ve asked her numerous times to consider applying to the preparatory academy in order to bolster her scholarship opportunities yet can’t understand why Lai doesn’t take that initiative when she does with so many other things. Yasmine would never consider herself a nagging mother but Lai has sometimes accused her of it. Yasmine has considered just inviting the headmaster over herself but who has time when they are running a restaurant? The meal alone would score them enough points to get in, she has no doubt. It would be another feather in the Kapitha family’s hat to add students of the Academy to their long list of accolades.
5. MIA DENHOLM
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If the world were less cruel and corrupt, Miaslava Molotova might have been a decent mother. Motherhood was forced upon her and as anyone knows, when one is given no choice, it often leads to resentment and bitterness.
When she was younger she imagined she would grow up, fall in love, get married, and have children, but that happy dream was nothing like what it turned out to be.
She wanted an education but her father arranged for her to marry a highly beneficial informant called ‘Denhilov’ within the Rusklavan Underground. She was forced to wed or end up unsupported. Mia was beautiful, the only child of a powerful family, and she led a privileged life until she realized those privileges were born on top of piles of corpses and it could be taken away in a snap if she didn’t fall in line.
Her husband was kind at first, but her resentment of the situation soured their relationship and he was less so when she found out his secrets, often beating her until she pretended to be unconscious so he would just leave her be. The only times he did not was when she was pregnant–and to choose between pregnancy and physical violence is hardly a choice.
It didn’t help that her firstborn, a son named Alerik, is the spitting image of his father. She hated looking at him, especially as he grew more into his features. She was more agreeable to her daughter, Elenoire, but still wished she’d never had any children at all. Why would anyone want to bring others into this cruel world? Her husband clearly loved them more than her, the way he doted on Alerik made her blood boil as he never afforded her any affection anymore, only violence. She was jealous, she was petty, and she was the reason the Kashmire’s SCIA blasted into her house and took her husband out in front of Alerik when he was only 8 years old. She wanted to be free of monsters, and she didn't care what had to be done to get what she wanted.
After that, she fled Ruskslovia and from the influence of her father because if there was one thing she feared, it was her daughter would be forced to live the same horrors as Mia. Or worse, Alerik would be snatched up and groomed to be the next monster in her father’s empire of crime. Her plan was to use the fortune her grandmother had hidden and hoarded but that all went astray when the key to it disappeared with the SCIA agents.
Taking care of children without the support of a partner is hard but using manipulative tactics such as emotional blackmail, guilt-tripping, and gaslighting, she could at least make her son do her bidding, and since she believed it was his fault the key was gone she determined he would be the one to help her get it back.
Mia sustained head injuries and mental abuse during those years with Denhilov. Her judgment started to tailspin, as well as her temper, and her reality. It was a challenge for Erik to keep her tempered, and protect Noire. She refused to seek help, solely focused on the key to wealth–an obsession. This chase after it took them across many different countries while avoiding her father and looking for information until she could emigrate to Kashmire.
Her children were miserable moving around and unable to build any meaningful friendships, and Erik took the brunt of her anger in his adolescence–she was set off by his tiniest mistakes; resulting in verbal abuse that was scathing. She was softer on Noire, but Erik didn’t let that jealousy consume him seeing how clearly more positively she treated his sister than him. He also noticed her talking out loud to their father long after he was dead which concerned him greatly but he never mentioned it because he was also fearful of his mother’s reaction.
Erik never once hated his mother, he just felt sorry for her and knew she was sick, and felt helpless about how to help her–only could do as she wanted to keep her happy. He wanted to feel loved again and was just as desperate to get that feeling back, but it never seemed there was a light at the end of the tunnel of their misery or tension.
Noire was relatively sheltered from her mother’s episodes, mostly because Erik could persuade Mia to take a valium and lay down until they passed and made sure Noire never disturbed her. So Noire has a bit better view of their mother in her memories, remembering a lady who smiled and told her stories, who sang her songs to cheer her up and keep her from crying when she felt sad. Noire liked to poke fun at Erik as little siblings tend to do and she realizes it was because she witnessed Mia do it so often despite Erik’s discomfort at it.
After Mia put a bullet in Erik during a fit of psychotic rage after losing control of him, after convincing him to kidnap an SCIA agent's daughter–she was apprehended, plead insanity, tried and convicted of attempted murder and kidnapping, and is currently locked in a ward of women’s corrections in Kashmire.
Erik survived the shooting but has wiped his hands clean of his mother, rightfully. He now has custody of his little sister and despite their difficulties and trauma, still holds out hope he, as a 23-year-old, and Noire at fifteen years old can be a family. He has a deep fear that once she turns eighteen, he will never see nor hear from her again. Noire feels like at times Erik ignores her in favor of his girlfriend, and doesn’t feel like he would even miss her if she were to disappear from his life.
Family Features:
1. THE CALHOUN FAMILY (Marty's Family)
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Alex, Antonia, Marty, Melinda, and Alice.
Marty was named after his maternal granfather, Martin Francis--a man he never met but was told was a shrewd leader in the business guild in Kashmire's Golden Age. His family has been never been very flashy, yet somehow they fell into cahoots with the estate-holding branch of Cosgroves through his parents' friendships in University. His Father, Ash Calhoun, is a former Captian Hero and his mother, Natalie, is a retired Circuit judge. Being a child of them, he was subtly manipulated all his young life to be near and fall for the Cosgrove's middle child, a daughter named Melinda. Marty doesn't hold any ill will toward that fact because he thinks his wife is the most beautiful woman in the world and was his first...everything.
Marty wanted to go into a science career but his life plans changed when his older brother, Jimmy, suddenly caught a case of amnesia after his uni graduation. It threw the family into chaos, so Marty spent time researching his brother's condition and put out a few published novels on the subject in hope to understand it better and help others.
This change, left him a stay-at-home father which he was happy to do, as it supported Melinda in her ambitions to join the region’s top architectual firm and rise in the ranks there.
Melinda was always the most level-headed of Pryce and Adriana Cosgrove's children, she worked for scholarships despite the available tution funds from her family. She loves old buildings, and cats and is sad she can no longer have any because her husband is allergic to animal fur. She is very close with her older sister, Mira, but thinks her younger brother, Marshal is kind of a cad and would rather not stay too long around him at a family function.
She wants the best for her children but finds it difficult to steer them down the paths she wants for them versus the off-road ones they are trying to take. Reputation still matters to her, even if she is more relaxed than the rest of her family about it.
Alexander is an unrefined young man. He's messy, brash, and cares not for the peer pressures of the elite school he attends. He'd rather skateboard and make out with boys..or girls. Whichever. Despite that mess, he is a great big brother and cares a lot for his family and friends.
Alice is a complicated girl, she is laser-focused on what she wants and stops at nothing to achieve it. She is a horrible student to the chagrin of her parents and is perceived as shallow, manipulative, and mean at school. She has a lot of friends but they are not really her friends.
Antonia is a sweet little girl who likes art and math. She likes being read to and being outside. She gets along better with her brother than her sister, and is a bit shy at first meeting but opens up so much if there’s a subject to talk about she is interested in!
1. THE COSGROVE FAMILY (Felix's Family)
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Caleb, Action Cat, Felix, Rhapsody, and Colleen.
Felix is the only child of Pierce and Jillian Cosgrove. He was a very late bloomer. Often shy and kept to himself throughout adolescence. He's very intelligent and is a scion of a family from ‘old money’. He noticed of the lack of quality in public education in Kashmire which spurred him to take up the role of Education Minister after he left university. No Cosgroves had evet attended public schooling but he took it upon himself to better the system from a place of privilege.
Felix is serious and firm, not much of a talker but more of a man of action. He met his wife, Rhapsody, in uni and she was also a late bloomer like himself but their chemistry was undeniably strong and they ended up doing something neither of them had done before after meeting each other: staying up late and talking for hours.
Rhapsody comes from the large, musically-named, Hart family, she is artistic and fun-loving even though she went through a brooding phase in high school and cannot hold her liquor without dire consequences. She is not a risk taker and measures every decision now.
Caleb is the best of both his parents, keenly intelligent, kind, interested in art, and leadership roles, and he is by no means shy but he is also not extroverted and tends to prefer his social circle small but close. He has perfect grades and girls are noticing him more due to his family's influence, affluence, and his generally attractive disposition. It goes without saying he adores his cat.
Colleen is very much her mother's daughter, in looks and demeanor. She is painfully shy and prefers reading books to socializing, often cited as a shut-in or a 'princess,' too good to talk to others. She has a big imagination and loves to swim, draw, and write.
3. THE KAPITHAS (Fernando's Family)
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Lai, Yasmine, Shreya, Shalin, Fernando, and Vish (the dog)
Fernando is the youngest of the original Kapitha children, born in-game to a successful businessman named Javier and his beautiful wife, Calypso who have long since passed out of this mortal plane. He likes to lounge, take care of the family orchard trees, and work on his crossword puzzles while he defers most family decisions to his wife because she's just so good at taking the lead in everything.
He met his wife, Yasmine at Uni, though, somehow she presently looks a lot younger for her age, for a relatively small age gap. Yasmine was from outside the Kashmire region but has made her mark on the family and neighborhood with her ambitious and fussy nature. One might say she is a perfectionist, and she runs a tight ship at home and at the restaurant she opened.
Lai is their eldest child, she makes them proud as she is an overachiever at school with a perfect grade point average, well-rounded participation in extra-cirrculars, as well as helps out at the family restaurant so she knows the value of hard work. Just because she aims high doesn’t mean she is totally obedient, however. She has a small rebellious streak, as one might being a teenager with a helicopter mom.
Shreya and Shalin are twins, they have too much energy for Yasmine to command so she lets them run it off around the orchard out back. She even sent them to summer camp and it was so quiet for a week without them. They both love playing with the old family dog. They are both equally boisterous, Shreya wants to learn how to skateboard and Shalin is proud he can do perfect handstands. Lai is often stuck babysitting them and has little patience for their antics.
4. THE MILLER FAMILY
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Maureen, Calvin, Travis, Rhonda, and April (sitting atop the hen house)
The Miller family is one that my younger sister created when she lived nearby for grad school and came around to sim every Wednesday night. Of course, I wouldn't let her ruin the lives of MY sims so I let her create some of her own in my hood to play. Now that she’s moved away I have become their alternate diety.
The Millers are competitors for Sky Phoenix’s produce farm's business. They also sell produce but in addition, homemade wood items, fresh eggs, flower arrangements, and fish! Travis and his wife, Rhonda moved to the country, had a son named Calvin, and later, a daughter named Maureen. When Maureen was a little girl, they decided to do the charitable thing and adopt. This led to April living with them. Plus they needed more hands on the farm.
All the kids have farm chores, some like them and some don’t. Calvin is in the mindset they are just things that need done so doesn’t complain but doesn’t truly enjoy it. He eventually grew up from a teenager and moved to the local community college to learn more and join the military for a few years; he is expected to come take over the farm after that stint as the eldest son.
The Millers are a more traditional family with traditional family values, after all.
April is a quiet young woman, and yearns for a life in the city; she wants to play guitar and write music. She finds entertainment in ice skating on the fish pond come winter and aiming throwing rotten fruits into bins in the autumn after harvest. She has built up a lot of muscle from hauling hay and eggs. The farm life is dull but she is thankful the Millers took her in from her life as an orphan. She doesn’t remember her real parents.
Maureen was blessed with being pretty and has no long term ambitions. This has led to others thinking her kind of ditzy and only good for her looks. She loves animals and the farm is the perfect environment for her! She feeds the chickens, refills the cat and dog dishes and likes watching the fish swim in the pond. She feels like she could live on the farm forever! She also likes arranging flowers that are sold at the weekend farmer's market in their barn.
Travis and Rhonda are now elders, while fit, their bones aren't as young as they were when they started the farm so they are looking to retire soon and eagerly await Calvin to return home and take over.
5. THE SANCHEZ-KAPITHA FAMILY (Ori's Family)
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This family is the Kapitha-Sanchez family although no one actually in it has a hyphenated surname: Ori, Angelo, and Aviva.
Ori is the Kapitha. Aviva is the Sanchez and Angelo has the genetics for both families.
Both the Kapitha and Sanchez families are first-wave Kashmire families, Angelo is third generation as both parents were in their mid-adult lifespan when he was conceived.
Aviva and Ori are not in love, they aren't even married. Ori has had a particularly rough past, what with disappearing from Kashmire for five years and mysteriously turning up with no memories, without the woman he disappeared with that was supposed to be his fiance. It’s no wonder he was harassed by detectives, assuming Ori had done something horrible to Sierra Jalowitz who is still missing to this day.
He didn't remember his family or Aviva, his best friend. She had missed him so much! A little alcohol and no memories can go a long way in a platonic celebration-reunion-turned-something else.
That something else resulted in Angelo, and Aviva decided to move in with Ori and co-parent, though both of them are pretty lax with it and Angelo has a free-reign and loose structure in his life. Ori manages his family's restaurant and is dabbling into the paranormal trying to find out what happened to him while Aviva entertains and gets more of a social bost with strangers than her own son.
Angelo craves connections, feeling somewhat isolated in his own family. He turns to his friends, his passion for video games, and talent for skateboarding to try and keep from spiraling into a quiet hell of boredom at home.
5. THE GREYSTONE FAMILY (Skyler's Family)
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Noah, Sonata, Ryder, Skyler, Gavin, and Kingston
Sonata and Skyler met at University when they were both at their peak of their romantic lives and both were each other's cherry on top of their long list of conquests. They have known each other since they were kids however, Skyler once dated Sonata’s elder sister Melody when they were teenagers. Awkward!
Anyway, after settling down as much as two romance sims can, proof of their arduous nature can be found in the fact they have four sons together and neither have yet to have wandering eyes.
Skyler worked for many years as a journalist like his mother but was recently laid off, the freedom of the press seems to be getting tighter as honest journalism is being scrutinized. He has a good network of frat bros he keeps in contact with though it’s been harder to find time to hang out when kids are in the equation. He likes going to the gym, playing billiards, and poker–often asking Ryder to look after the rest of his brothers so Skyler can go reminisce about the glory days at Sim State.
Also to note: Skyler has a pair of fabulous sea-blue eyes that are unique to his family’s genetic line that he’s passed to two of his sons..
Sonata owns a business that sells pottery; she learned the techniques from her in-laws and has since been making her own pottery as well as teaching her sons the trade. She sometimes is over-concerned with her appearance, having been born with a dent in her head but recently got plastic surgery to fix it. She now is free of having to live her life behind bangs! She likes to drink wine and watch daytime soap operas when she’s not doing business things.
Noah, the eldest son, currently doesn't live with the family, instead, he lives with his Uncle, Sebastian (Skler’s older brother), out in Isla Del Kashmire on Skye’s Produce Farm because his youngest brother was not planned and the town house was getting too crowded!
He misses the boisterousness of a home full of brothers sometimes but not when he is reminded that he has a girlfriend who he can at least have privacy with at the farmhouse; he wouldn't ever think of bringing her home if he still lived in Scandalica City. He likes to skateboard, but has discovered new hobbies while living in the country–Sebastian has taught him how to fish and play guitar. He’s also learned a ton about plants! Though he hates pulling weeds
Ryder is a pleasant-tempered, responsible second son who aims to please. He enjoys finding quiet places to hang out with special friends and is a good boarder, often being found at the skatepark on weekends. Ryder is very close with all his brothers and takes on a leader role in their sibling group as he has the most patience with them.
Kingston is a goofball that comes off as awkward in large groups, he likes making people laugh but is bullied at school, to which his older brothers rally around him to protect him if they catch any of that nonsense happening. He likes art and visual things but struggles with writing and reading, the letters just seem to get jumbled up!
Gavin is a happy little accident that is being raised by the whole family. He prefers the puzzle blocks currently and does not like bath time; would rather play or be sung or read to by someone. So close to learning how to walk!
Some BIG extended family photos:
1. THE PHOENIX FAMILY (Jimmy & Coraline's Family)
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Jimmy Phoenix is a premade university sim, one of the few lucky premade sims to be folded into the fabric of Kashmire. He made fast friends with a lot of my playables that first attended Sim State long ago, including sims like Lucas Piper and Silas Greystone, founder of Hoh Fruhm fraternity. He met and dated a CAS sim named Coraline Hughes. When I first got the Uni Ep I made a handful of CAS sims to celebrate and Coraline was in that batch. After graduating he married Coraline and started his own law firm that Silas and Lucas joined.
Coraline found small success being a photographer and artist, she has a very green thumb and even built a greenhouse attachment to their house and taught her daughters to garden as well.
Their daughters are Skye and Raine. Skye took the green thumb to heart and started a whole ass farm. Raine followed in her dad's footsteps to be a powerful lawyer.
I've posted about Skye and her wife, Nelle in the past, you can learn about Skye's family and farm here .
Raine married Adagio Hart and they are parents to Hazel and Harrison. Hazel is one of my main story characters, you can start reading about them here, if interested
2. THE WELLINGTON FAMILY (Jonas and Cheyanne's Family)
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Here is Jonas & Cheyanne's WHOLE family.
(LtR) Brynn, Grant, Chase, Victoria, Sawyer, Robert, Amelia, Charlie, Albert, Cheyanne, Jonas, Iago, Atticus, and Piper
Jonas is a creative man with talents for drawing and playing drums. He is currently the City Planner. His father, Maxwell, taught him how to play, however when he was sixteen, his father cheated on his mother and it shattered his love and admiration for the man. Jonas never spoke to him again.
He was childhood friends with Cheyanne Piper, who grew up the youngest child and only daughter of the Piper family, so Jonas often received grief from her band of older brothers when his friendship turned into affection. Jonas weathered the taunts, and heeded their threats, but won Cheyenne's heart. Jonas knew he would not be like his father, and ever let his eyes stray. He is completely devoted to Cheyanne. She is a retired Police Chief in Kashmire.
Their eldest son, Sawyer, always dreamed of traveling the world. He's made that happen, going on several trips outside of Kashmire since graduating but now has since settled down with his wife, Victoria, and their three children. He wants to start his own business someday, dealing with travel but a rich old man beat him to opening a travel agency and vacation property rental business.
Sawyer's Children are, Chase, Grant, and Brynn - who keep him on his toes. He's not a family sim but LOVES having a family and often reads to them and takes them out to parks, helps them with homework and Victoria is grateful he has such an involvement in their lives as she and her siblings grew up with a very busy father that was hard to spend time with.
Amelia is one of my favorite sims and you can find tidbits and pictures of her sprinkled around the web over the years and even on this very site. Here is an imgur album mini story for her I don't think I ever shared. She is obsessed with the ocean, moved to Kashmire Point, opened a surfboard business and boutique, rose the ranks of the oceanographer career to be the hand of Poisidan, and earned enough from that to purchase her dream home on the beach!
Amelia snagged the interest of Charlie Calhoun while at college, he dotes on her and is a top lawyer for the region. They were married on the beach in her backyard, surprising no one. I should mention Charlie is also a twin so it was also no surprise they had twins.
Their sons are named Albert and Robert (Bertie & Bobby) and I honestly cannot tell them apart without mousing over their names. Amelia is a mother who loves to encourage her sons' passions and is thrilled to give them a childhood where they can just go out the backdoor and swim in the ocean, always under supervision though! The boys love to fish, draw, read and be read to. They are full of energy and have a good environment to run around in.
Atticus's obsession is music. He loves to play instruments and listen to tunes.
He found companionship in Iago Sanchez, they were married and lived in Memosa Bay for a while but recently moved out to Pandora where Atticus is trying to liven up the music scene. He developed a phobia of living alone after graduating college but with therapy, it has eased and now that he lives with Iago, he is more comfortable. He is close with his sister's kids but could spend more time with Sawyer's. Pandora is kind of far away so he doesn't get back often as he used to for family gatherings. He and his husband JUST adopted a little infant girl named Catalina since they both rolled the want to adopt. I've moved all his musical belongings to a nearby storage unit.
Piper is Jonas & Cheyanne's youngest child and is trying to finish up a uni degree. She's a bit shy and hard to read for someone just meeting her. She definitely is the most reserved of all her siblings who seem to be extroverts and make friends easily. Piper attends Academie Le Tour and has a crush on one of the Greek Society guys, she is trying to put herself out there more but struggles with it.
Winter Holiday Photos:
1. THE COSGROVES (Pryce & Adrianna's family)
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As stated long ago, The Cosgroves are the 'old money' hoity toity family of Kashmire. Here is their 2022 Holiday family photo with their adult children - Mira, Melinda, and Marshall.
Here are their grandchildren - Bryce (Mira's), Antonia, Alexander, and Alice
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2. CECILY LOUIS AND MILES PIPER
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Their love story is currently playing out in 'Of Plants and PLayers'
No Pants, drinking wine, and her dog, Dexter loves his new bone.
3. IAGO AND ATTICUS SANCHEZ
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Here is their new daughter, Catalina. They went through family planning as outlined in the section below!
5. BABIES?!
I haven't had a baby boom in awhile because I play so slowly but one on my goals for 2023 is to have sims have more babies (at least 10) so Kashmire doesn't suffer from a population collapse. I'm already five in with Elias Elberts, Lorenzo Zeitlebahn, Mara Mason, Catalina Sanchez, and Jayden Drake. I built a fertility/family planning clinic in Memosa Bay to spur me to get more babies. Elise Mason is a single lady who struck out on her auction date, I decided wanted to have a child with no support from a partner so I had her visit. Then I used visitor controller to only allow adult and elder males on the lot, then from that pool I decided who would 'donate' and then use sim blender to 'make pregnant with' the donor and go on her merry way. Once the baby was born, I used sim blender to cut the biological father's ties to it. Alternatively, couple Atticus and Iago Sanchez wanted to adopt - so I took them to the clinic and instead used visitor controller to only allow adult females (potential surrogates) and then I decided which of them would use their genetics on the surrogate - sent her on her merry way, played her, accelerated her pregnancy, put the infant up for adoption, and then had one of the eager Dads call in to get their new infant that is biologically Iago's child. So that's been a fun and fresh new way to make infants in my hood!
6. Commune for non-traditional job-seekers
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I downloaded this lot by andreva and placed it in Scandalica City awhile back and had SO much fun decorating it. The idea behind it is to have sims live in it who don't want to work a traditional career and focus on other things like writing, painting, etc. It has a rooftop garden and is very shabby but they can also sell
stuff from their garden and other creative things in a storefront on the first floor. I added 5 new sims to Kashmire, all created by other simmers, more info in the spoilers tags!
I have six rooms all themed for a pottery maker, aspiring fighter (I have a money and fight anyone mod so I hope in 2023 to start an underground fighting business), writer, musician, artist, and seamstress. The new sims that live here are named Anthony Davis by NikkaSimms, Alexandria Weaver by ChocolateCitySims, Ivan Kristof by Blue Heaven Sims, Damien Girardi by Tristan Clint, and Nick Nova by Freelala. These sims are a nice fresh injection of genetics and variety to the population of Kashmire!
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7. Retirement Places
With a Chris Hatch mod, I could build apartment styled retirement homes, place a bird bath and then move in retired elders. The mod does 2 things, it will find other NPC Elders to move into empty units so it feels like a real retirement village or community. 2. It will search out for any living relatives of the elders and make them walk by to check up on their mom, dad, grandparents. I build Adobes in Pandora and Beach cottages in Kashmire Point. So far The Pheonixes and Cosgroves (Pierce and Jillian) have moved into these communities and it's SO fun to play so I highly suggest this mod if you struggle playing elders.
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More images here!
8. Some kids are finally in Uni.
A lot of my teens went off to Uni this year. Here's what some look like as Young Adults:
Kit Calhoun
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Roderick Kapitha
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(his hair is already different than this picture)
Liam MacKenzie
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Lydia Mae MacKenzie
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Ros Kapitha
On the right, Talking to Erik
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Xander Hart
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9. TOP 10 MODS I DOWNLOADED IN 2022 (Some are new and some old, I just got with the program)
1. 50 LTWs - Lamare
2. Everything Shiftable - Lamare
3. Bubblebath Default Replacement - pforest
4. Senior Retirement Homes - Chris Hatch
5. Gussy Up Update - lingeringwillx
6. Baby Clothes Mod - Chris Hatch
7. Laundry Mod - Sun&Moon Starfactory
9. Inky-Fish's Male Bodyhair Overlays - Rikku
10. Custom Fishing spot with custom fish - Asyarth
10. 2022 SIM CENSUS!
I haven't done this since 2018 but I went ahead and did that thing where I took all the playable sims of Kashmire pictures. Here are all the ones in my game as of September 2022:
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Replies from last time
nayahn1 - Thank you so much and right back at you! You have such a rich way of storytelling and have for years, I always enjoy your comic updates!
Cher64 - You are welcome, I post so infrequently that I feel I need to flag you down so you know. Colleen is a little firecracker when she is forced to be but would rather people just leave her alone. What I loved about the Bachelor auction was it was one of those random played-out scenarios where they have matched up based on attraction and I just let them loose and interpreted it in a quick story format, and it led to something beautiful if you check out the 'Of Plants and Players' story I highlight in this post! I've set up another six months worth of content to digest so I hope you are well-fed!
jain - I was happy to see you went back and checked out the Louis family post to gain more information on Cecily and her family, thank you! Those relationships will be important for the rest of the story. It's so uncanny because the Louis family is based on my friend's family and I am friends with her sister on Facebook so I see the real Cecily life updates and she really does look like her sim counterpart, even though sim!Cecily was born in game around 2014 so it's just a coincidence they have similar genetics. I hope you continue to read the Kashmire happenings in 2023!
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5+ hours later after chasing down links and writing/copying everything, I think I've updated you on what's been going on so I hope you enjoyed the reads and tidbits and probably another 6 months I will have another update!
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