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12 years ago

"Sims and Friends: Share Your Stories!!

Hi everybody and welcome to the thread where you can meet new friends and share your Sim stories and a little bit about yourselves so we can get to know you and help each other with kind words through those difficult times in real life.

Let me start by introducing myself:

My real life name is Janet (Jan Tedfor in my studio is myself) but I go by the the name of Silver which is taken from my username, SilverDaybreak (In memory of my part Arabian mare that I use to ride). I am from Sussex, New Brunswick and live with my wonderful husband and 2 cats Muffy and Buffy. I work for a local call center doing hotel reservations which is a lot of fun most of the time but like any job does get stressful (mentally).

As for my Sim Stories, I am one of those Simmers who has several stories on the go. My first legacy family (The Steel family) will soon be retiring after generation 10 as will my Day family. In this thread I plan to post the links to all of my stories at the beginning and then let you know which one has an update on my blog but will continue to post the pictures to my stories here in the thread. Don't worry about not reading all of them just pick some that you enjoy to follow and then maybe on a cold, snowy winter's day sit back with a hot chocolate or something sit back and read some of my older stories if you like. Each of my generations are like a story in themselves although they follow the main theme of the legacy but also adding new themes along the way.

I know most of you know this already but I like to use Sims from my friends in my stories as well as most of my newer legacy stories involve friends' Sims and/or families. In my main legacies as well if the game does not generate a spouse for my heirs via school prom or other methods I also like to find a Sim from one of your studios to use for a spouse. Someone that fits my storyline as well as a Sim who seems to be forgotten in a studio and has few downloads. This gives new dimensions and genes to my stories as well as gives you an opportunity to have a part in my stories. I hope that no one here minds me using a Sim from their studios for this purpose.

Of course if any of you need Sims for a story or extra townies please feel free to use any that are in my Studio. Just let me know who you are using and please give me updates on their lives even if they are just townies, letting me know that they are alright and settled well into their new town is nice, too. Guess I'm like a mother hen to my Sims as I like to know where they are after they leave my guidance.

That's enough about me for now.

Many thanks to my fellow Simmers and friends, Jazen, Sharona, Fairybird, Fru, Arrowleaf, Dreamerz, Ivory (when she returns to us), Madhatter, Spidergirl, Wickichick, Anon, Faye and any others who join me in making this thread the best place to share stories and make new friends. I will let each of these wonderful people introduce themselves and their wonderful stories.

Please when you post in this thread for the first time, introduce yourselves and comeback frequently as we want to get to know you and not have you just post your story and run which defeats the purpose of a having this a social place to share stories about Sims and yourselves. We will all try to read your stories and leave feedback and if we take awhile to do so please don't worry we will but sometimes real life and playing our own stories takes up time. All of us enjoy receiving feedback on our stories and love giving our thoughts on yours as well.

May we all grow closer to each other and our friendships flourish as we follow in Wicki's footsteps. Here's to many happy times ahead.

Silver

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Spiderg1rl
12 years ago
Wow that's one hard intro to follow :lol:

Hi there guys, my name is Shell but Spider works too :D I have no background in writing I just do it for fun, I have been writing sim stories for over a year now and although I'd like to say I finished them all, unfortunately I got hit by a nasty glitch. That doesn't mean I'm not determined but that sometimes you can't do anything about gameplay issues. I'm sure we've all been there.

I have a legacy I write at the moment that is Supernatural and Romeo & Juliet based. It's actually a continuation of all my previous stories in a way to keep the others alive as I was in tears when I lost the others. Now its heavily story based and controlled by me completely (in terms of baby births etc) so the glitch can't cause any more issues.

I love to read other stories and try my best to keep up to date with them when not working :D I highly recommend other stories in this thread they are incredibly well thought out by amazing simmers.

Please take a seat, join in and make some fantastic friendships :D We'll be happy to have you :D
SilverDaybreak
12 years ago
It's been suggested by @SilentWolf101 to put links to our Simselves here, so thought I'd get things started tonight. Will try to add five to the list each day until you're all here.

Myself:

https://www.thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse?searchtype=ea_origin_id&time=all&category=households&searchquery=SilverDaybreak&sortby=newest&max=50&maxis=false

Here you'll find my real Simself: Janet Tedford, SilverSelf: Silver Day, Simself's granddaughter: Lorraine Tedford, Simself with my husband: Jan & Grant Tedford

Sims 3 Simself: Jan Tedfor: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=4298899
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@CathyTea : She has several selves for you to choose from.

https://www.thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse?searchtype=ea_origin_id&time=all&category=households&searchquery=CathyTea&sortby=newest&max=50&maxis=false
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@Julyvee94 :

https://thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse?searchtype=ea_origin_id&time=all&category=households&searchquery=julyvee94&sortby=newest&max=50&maxis=false

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@Simslover163 :

https://thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse?searchtype=ea_origin_id&time=all&category=households&searchquery=Simslover163&sortby=newest&max=50&maxis=false

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@SilentWolf101:

https://www.thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse?searchtype=ea_origin_id&time=all&category=households&searchquery=Silent_Wolfy101&sortby=newest&max=50&maxis=false

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@Jes2G:

https://athena.thesims.com/v1/images/0/0x00000bcc/96B07556-6F94-11E5-89E0-F66B079E2717/00.jpg

https://thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse searchtype=ea_origin_id&time=all&category=all&searchquery=jes2g&sortby=downloads&max=50&maxis=false

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@dreamerz13:

https://athena.thesims.com/v1/images/0/0x00000558/3713C812-24A5-11E4-8607-EE50432EBC2C/00.jpg

https://www.thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse?searchtype=ea_origin_id&time=all&category=all&searchquery=dreamerz13&sortby=downloads&max=50&maxis=false

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@ra3rei

https://www.thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse?searchtype=ea_origin_id&time=all&category=all&searchquery=ra3rei&sortby=downloads&max=50&maxis=false

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@Derubelle

https://www.thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse?searchtype=ea_origin_id&time=all&category=all&searchquery=Derubelle&sortby=downloads&max=50&maxis=false

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@MunnieSims : (The redhead is her Simself)

https://www.thesims.com/en_AU/gallery/browse?category=all&searchtype=ea_origin_id&sortby=newest&time=all&searchquery=babynerd&max=50&maxis=false
Spiderg1rl
12 years ago
SilverDaybreak wrote:
Spidergirl: Nice intro. If you read back in my legacies, I used work-arounds to cover my glitches. Usually you'll know if there is a big tragedy or something in my story.
Thanks I could have found a workaround for my baby challenges but it would mean me saying how many kids I get not the pregnancy which was kind of the point so in the end I cancelled all but one in hopes for a fix but the last was officially cancelled today as the glitch is still here. It's a glitch where my babies won't age up and stay babies forever. Not the best glitch for a baby challenge writer :lol: That was the only reason the stories were cancelled, if they were legacies or something I would have carried on determining how many kids each heir would have myself, like I do now really.
SharsSims
12 years ago
Beautiful intro, Silver! :)

I am a self-employed pianist, piano teacher and musician. I used to gig, record music and be on the go a lot but now that I've temporarily changed towns and moved out of the city I mostly just teach and play Sims... lol.

I got Sims 3 in January 2012, but have had Sims 1,2 and many expansions since the very beginning. I play two main Sim games - my simself Sharona who is of course a musician. She has reached top celebrity status in Starlight Shores. SharonaSim has a lovely husband, Garrick Watley. Garrick wanted tons of kids so they set out on a quest to have ten children and it has become a mini baby challenge.

The Watley Family Legacy can be found here: http://watleyfamily.wordpress.com

Then my other main save is the legacy of my Jonso family, which is called "The Party People!". It can be found at http://jonso.wordpress.com. Right now I am at Generation Four with Kaiya Jonso.

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Thanks Silver for starting this new thread, and thanks Wickichick for bringing us all together on the old thread. And thanks to the wonderful people that have and will contribute their stories and their love of THE SIMS!!!!!!!!!!!

EDITED for time-sensitive content :)
Jaybzieh
12 years ago
Hi! My name's Jay, I'm in high school, and I'm a girl regardless of having a guy's name. You can call me Jaybzieh if you really want to but most people find it difficult to remember, since it's so obscure. I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Jaybzieh' on the Internet, haha. It's just a silly nickname I gave myself when I was a child :3 most people can't even pronounce it correctly. ^_^ ah well.

And now for a list of random facts about me :)

I'm a cat person; I have horrible curly black hair; I don't listen to music (I know, shocking, right? Nobody understands how I don't love music but idk, I just don't); I love to draw and paint but I'm rubbish at it; I love to write and I hope I'm not too bad at it considering I have a story up online; my hamster is the cutest thing in the UNIVERSE; I really want children some day; I love cupcakes with a passion.
I can't think of any more. It's a pretty boring list anyway :3

Okay, so my story is in my siggy, but I've only just started it. It only has a prologue and a chapter one so far, heh. I love reciving feedback on it, good or bad, and I'll try to read your story too. As soon as I have the time :3
PrincessLala14
12 years ago
Hi there, everybody!!!

http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z339/Princess_Lala_15/Unrelated/LalaEdit.png

While my real name is Brianna, I prefer to go by the name of Lala Rutherwell on the Sims site. Lala Rutherwell is the name of my Simself, too. I'll be seventeen in two and a half weeks, and next year I'm going off to university and probably won't be able to Sim as much. I live in beautiful Canada, so I am fluent in English and French, and when I go to uni I'm hoping to get my BA in French. I'm very perky and girly, and though I do have my fair share of blonde moments (despite being a brunette) I'm also very smart. I love reading and writing and playing games. As I'm sure you can all tell, purple is my favourite colour.

Although I've started many stories on the Sims site, I often have difficulty with finishing what I start and therefore haven't finished many. The only story to which I am properly dedicated is My 100 Baby Challenge. Is is cleverly titled "MY 100 Baby Challenge" and the premise is that my Simself is really me, trapped isnide the computer and doomed to give birth to 100 children or live forever stuck in the game. Along the way, tons of crazy stuff happens. The challenge is pretty long and a few pictures are missing in the middle (I'm working on fixing them though!) but if you have a chunk of time and nothing to do with it, drop by and take a look!

My challenge can be found here.

I like to consider myself friendly and I'm often told that I'm too nice, to the point that it's a fault. So don't be afraid to say hi, because I'll be nice and chatty to you, and you'll never figure out whether or not I genuinely like you because I'm too nice to say that I don't ;)
TheNay83
12 years ago
I'm Dené, my screen name is how my name is pronounced. I also known as Nay-Nay, Juicy or my stage name Dè Nègra. I'm a 29 year old with a face of a 16 year old which I get tease about it when I'm buying a drink. I'm a House Music DJ/Producer with close to 100 original tracks and remixes.

I have a love for tacos, vodka, disco, moscato wine, horror movies and men. :mrgreen: I'm usually the life of the party cause I'm pretty ridiculous like my humorous stories, Camp Tigo and Party Montigo. I like to randomly start dancing in public places and randomly start singing Micheal Jackson songs or just bust out in song that I just made up. I'm just random person with a wild imagination. I have a catchphrase that's catching on in my city, "Keep it Juicy!"

All of my stories have mature content and I don't hold back.. well maybe a little but that won't last :mrgreen: Since I love horror and drama movies, a lot of my stories have that in it. I try to keep my stories as real as possible. I write about some touchy subjects that most writers won't touch. I just want to put a realness into my stories along with some supernatural. I have a double legacy (Montigo-Lex) with several spin off stories. The 2 legacies are linked to each other. I also have a rainbowcy. My banner with lead you to both my legacies and rainbowcy. I have a facebook page for the double legacies. I also have a Tumblr. It's not strictly about the sims cause I tend to go off subject.. after all, I'm random. :mrgreen:
fruhurricane
12 years ago
Hello!

Lovely written intro, Silver!

I usually go by the name Fru which means Mrs in swedish. ^^ I'm 25 years old and a teacher student from the cold, snowy Sweden. It's not snowing now, though. But ye, Hollywood taught me that americans like to think Sweden is just a big cold country with polar bears on the streets.

I live with my fiance and our pug Gibson. I'm a true dog person and I can go on forever about how amazing they are so I'm just going to be quiet about that.

I'm using The Sims 3 to relax and as a way of channeling creativity. I'm currently writing two stories: The Lord legacy and Twisted Color (which is a rainbowcy).

The Oh Lord legacy is my dearest little baby. It's been going on for almost two years now and I still love this family very, very much. The current heiress (gen 5) is Luna Lord. She's an insecure, lonely girl with a big love for horses. She's been badly bullied throughout her school years and finds a way to escape when she starts a summer riding school and meet the stable guy Brick.

http://ohlordlegacy.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/screenshot-304.jpg?w=640&h=399
Luna Lord

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg824/scaled.php?server=824&filename=twistedcolor600.jpg&res=landing
Twisted Color is my freshest story, it's currently on the first generation. It's a rainbowcy where the founder is a tough, independent and confident girl named Marshmallow Puff Twist. Her biggest dream is for colorless to be valued the same as colorful berries in Fondant Fields, and to become a firefighter hero.

http://twistedcolor.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screenshot-167.jpg?w=600&h=374
Marshmallow Puff Twist

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I highly recommend the other stories so far introduced in this thread. They are all written by talented and friendly people. Please join our thread with sharing your stories or chatting away. :)

xx
/Fru
JagPacker26
12 years ago
My story is a 100 Baby Challenge too, with a simself. the link is in my clickable signature, but also here.

I am hoping that sharing this will get me more exposure to the story world.
camimh
12 years ago
Well I'll throw out my intro too, why not. :)

I'm Cami and have been playing sims since it first came out. When I played Sims 1 and Sims 2 I just played - no stories. But not long after Sims 3 came out I found a group of players to hang out with and we all developed our own stories over time. I still talk to several of them, some of them daily.

I've had many stories over the last three years but right now I have four active stories. School Days is a teen drama that is about to complete (and then evolve into a new story). Project Unity is a science fiction. The Taffity Legacy and Dusty Plains are legacies (Dusty Plains is a rainbowcy).

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EnX5CA6zE8Y/UBiYAsDsabI/AAAAAAAAF7k/fNPxgiuLQNM/s958/banner.png

I also do a group story called Crescent Bay with some of those friends I mentioned earlier. It started as a group of five but given how long it's been running, the group has thinned out a bit. Still, it's been a great project!

Crescent Bay has it's own blog now but all of my stories (including those I've finished or those on hiatus for one reason or another) are kept at Cami's Sims on blogger.

I have a tendency to get attached to my main characters but I suppose most of us do. I did NaNoWriMo last year based on my science fiction story and this year it will be based on School Days. NaNoWriMo is an incredible challenge by the way, if anyone is up for it. Starts on November 1st every year.

Anyway, beyond sims I am a photographer and homeschooling mom. I have three little munchkins and some pets.

ETA: I have a "for fun"/non-story family who share their antics on my Tumblr: The Glorious Ponds. Feel free to add me on Tumblr if you have an account there. ;)

Nice to "meet" you all.