This picture is old, but I feel terrible and my game is not cooperating. However, this song is beautiful to me beyond words and that is helping slightly.

I must have taken this picture when I entered her lot to change her into her funeral apparel for 43. /random fact

~June

A couple of the J teens would like to wish you a lovely Halloween! Also, I'm going to be doing a little story about the five of them up there celebrating Halloween, because I really do want to flesh out the relationships going on there. If I finish in time I'll submit it to the Boolprop Halloween Short Story event. :)

Woah, guys, NaNoWriMo starts in three hours. But first I'm watching "The Walking Dead" because I love zombies and it looks awesome.

Happy Halloween, lovelies!

~June

Hello, everyone! As promised, here's a behind-the-scenes post on Chapter 44. It's been a long time coming and it took a lot of planning, and thusly I have a lot to talk about.

( Never mind the friends I'm making.Collapse )

Well, that's that! But before I go, I'm just letting everyone know that I'll upload any Legacy Sims and other characters for abuse in your games; I haven't updated Accio Granger in ages, and I vaguely recall people making requests that I forgot to fulfill. So yeah. In my mind, 45 is starting to come together and will be normally sized. Nothing too crazy. Hope you enjoyed this picspam!

Quote of the Day: "People thought I went on vacation but I really spent the summer lost in the sewers."

~June

Chapter 44 is here at last! Epic behind-the-scenes post and journal-restructuring is soon to come. :D

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Enjoy, you darlings, and comment at Boolprop or in the comments below.

~June

Hi, everyone!

Chapter 44 is coming along slowly but surely; I shot a big scene last night and I'm about to shoot the next one. From there, I have to arrange two Sims to meet, then shoot a scene with them. I'm visualizing a timeline ATM, sorting and organizing certain things, and already it's helping me file stuff away in my mind. The timeline of the chapter has given me more trouble than I anticipated. Also, I've been working on the O'Brians (an update is about halfway done) and setting stuff up for my turn in the Around The World Round Robin Legacy, because my turn is next. So I'm sorry; I've been doing a lot lately, and of course I get the problem chapter at this point. :| Anyway, to make up for it, here are some sneak peeks at 44, currently entitled "Ghosts of the Past" but I'm not happy with ANYTHING title-wise at the moment.

In Chapter 44...
( Hey, hey, baby, it's never too late.Collapse )

Also, I got a Tumblr for Sims pictures. It's public and stuff and even has a Q&A section like Formspring, so check it out if you want.

I'm off to shoot more RAEG scenes, and after the chapter there'll be a little drabble+ about Isla's reflections because she's awesome.

Quote of the Day: "Your pager number has a tilde...how do I dial a tilde?"

~June

I took my sample from Chapter 42 because it's the shortest and I didn't want to be copy-pasting all night.

I've made some more progress on 44, shooting a scene with Leonard. Liana had her teen birthday, and she makes a nice Fortune Sim. My next scene to shoot is with Arthur, and then Arthur and Leonard for awhile. I'm going to throw in progression of Vanessa's pregnancy somewhere in between some of these scenes with spares or something, so it isn't all crammed in at the end. And that is that.

~June

FUCK YEAH! I was starting to think Vanessa became infertile or my ACR was borked. They were both nearly half-dead by the time Vanessa got pregnant.

What you see here is the conception of the last child of Generation J. I'm happy it's not twins again, because the plan for this child relies on the fact that he's the youngest and his siblings are a lot older than him. And being a twin doesn't exactly lend itself to that.

The chapter is really coming together to me. The main problem is the time frame. A lot of attention is drawn to spares and their kids in Chapter 44, and I wasn't sure where that fit in the time frame of the chapter. A lot of the spares' kids are a lot older than Joss, Jo, and their younger brother. It makes sense, because Leonard was born while they were all still in college. While I'm looking forward to fleshing out some of the spares' kids, Arthur in particular, it's a lot to juggle. The timing, as I said, really threw me for a loop. At this rate, Main Line Baby #3 is a LOT younger than everybody else.

Spares have been taking the spotlight a lot recently...Ignotus took over in college, and then Isla shared the spotlight with dead!Imago last chapter. Leo and Arthur just take in the tradition of their parents, I suppose. Even Ivy gets in on the action pretty soon.

Arthur's plot in particular is a bit delicate. While Leonard's solely romantic and also contributes to bringing Ivy in, Arthur's deals more with severed family ties, namely the aftermath of his parents' divorce. While I personally have never had to suffer through my parents splitting up, thankfully, people in my immediate family have. I really want it to be...I don't know, respectful. I don't want to trivialize it. Adjusting to life after the divorce isn't easy for Arthur; he loves his little sister and all, but sometimes he wishes things could be how they used to be. But he finds out they never can be again, and it hurts. I just want to represent that with the delicacy and respect it deserves, you know?

I've decided the chapter will conclude with Main Line Baby #3 becoming a toddler, which makes fitting in everything else a lot easier. I've also decided I need a new banner. It'll have some foreshadowing of what's to come. So if anyone's interested in helping me out when the time comes, that'd be great, because last time I requested a banner/avatar, it didn't work out very well. I always feel too shy to be very specific when requesting things from people I don't know...

tl;dr: Chapter 44's coming along rather well. I don't know when you can expect it up by, but it definitely won't be in two months like last time. :)

Also, it's my brother's birthday today. He's turning six. I'm giving him a whole lot of candy as a present. xD

Quote of the Day: "All right, Snivellus?"

~June

Hi, everyone!

I spent yesterday playing Isla. I'm very nearly done getting all the spares settled in. Faith and Oliver won't be having any kids quite yet because I miss the main house, and everyone else is all set up with their significant others as seen on TV in Chapter 41. This means I have Isla picspam, wooooo!

( Isla and that other guy Behind the CutCollapse )

That's that for now. Super Bowl's on later tonight, so the house smells like chicken wings and I can't watch 24. *whine* There's three episodes left in the season and Jack's girlfriend is being supremely obnoxious and I want to shoot her in the face and Tony and Michelle (aka my 24 OTP) split up after the last season because Tony became an alcoholic and Michelle left and they both dated WAYYYYYY below themselves afterwards with Tony hooking up with some bitchface bartender and Michelle hooking up with this grody old guy at division, CTU's bosses who are obnxious, but now they're working together again and falling in love again and Tony told Michelle he doesn't love the bitch he's with and it's SO GREAT! There was this scene when they were alone and Tony was like "Everything fell apart after you left" and Michelle was like "I didn't want it to be this way" and I was like "SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE" and then a phone rang and I was like "DAMMIT!" So I'm excited.

( 'OMG HE NEEDZ MOAR SURGERY': Capslock 24Collapse )

Quote of the Day: "Diss my OTP and die."

~June