Thank you, jaletu2005! :) As it happens, this was not posed. I'm playing a pseudo-legacy with this sim in the town I semi-built. :D I'm also taking pictures and writing about it, diary-style. (I've always wanted to keep a diary :blush:) Fern is a shy and hopeless romantic sim and last night she'd had an amazing date. In this picture, she was supposed to be doing her class activity for university, but she's distracted, very likely daydreaming about it. I just got lucky with pause button, and I really like the picture I manged to take because it's totally natural.
I totally understand your frustrations! I looooove Moonlight Falls so much and always want to play in it. I also want all the features from all the expansion packs to be available to me while I play. I like having all those options to keep my game interesting, and since I like to try playing through multiple generations, I find this especially important. So many time, I've tried to edit Moonlight Falls only for it to blow up in my face.
That's why I found an empty custom world similar to Moonlight Falls and edited it until I was happy. It can be very discouraging when it doesn't work out. That's why I have no future town construction plans. I'm going to play my town for a very long time, and probably panic down the road when I get bored of it because building is so stressful and scary. :dizzy: