Under The Tartosan Sun

In Chapter Six we meet Londyn Huntley and my favorite romance is born. The sparks fly from the moment they meet and Danielle has her moment of awakening.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18123199/#Comment_18123199

It is a special chapter that starts the relationship between Danielle and Londyn @DaniRose2143 🙂

Both chapters capture the feelings, thoughts, activities, friendships and romances of each of the ladies very well. 

Thank you @rosemow I'm getting close to the much longer chapters so I may slow down and post just one each day, and when I get to the really long ones I may wait a day or two between linking the next one.😁

Hi, @DaniRose2143 !!  It's wonderful to see you're moving your story here.  Now that you and a few others have "broken the ice" in this forum, I think I'll start writing a story here, too.  Z and I have a cute "slice of life" save that we're having fun with, featuring a character we're growing fond of.  Some of the same characters I wrote about in my previous story will be part of this one, too. 

It's fun to catch up with Danielle, Londyn, and the gang again! 

Thank you @MoonlightGraham❤️ The story will still continue on the old forums until the move, This thread is to introduce the story to a new group of readers.

Hey Z! I'm very close to finishing up a brand new chapter! When it's done I'll be posting over on the old forums.😊

@DaniRose2143 

I love both chapters, it's really nice to read all from the beginning 🙂  I already did that with Wyrd Girls, now this one ❤️

@Ellupelluellu Thank you. I'm so used to seeing you comment in the thread on the old forums that I sometimes forget you weren't in from the beginning. Apologies for not posting anything last night but I was working on a brand new that is now available on the old forums. So on we go. When I originally posted these I thought all three together was too long. The one I posted last is longer than these three combined, all by itself.🤣

Chapter 7

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18133180/#Comment_18133180

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Chapter 8

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18133181/#Comment_18133181

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Chapter 9

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18133183/#Comment_18133183

It was lovely to read the updates on each of the three ladies 🙂 It was great to read about how their lives are going. 

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@DaniRose2143 wrote:

@Ellupelluellu Thank you. I'm so used to seeing you comment in the thread on the old forums that I sometimes forget you weren't in from the beginning. 

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Yes, I was mia for half a year, why it is very interesting to read these from the beginning 🙂

Now we're getting to where the chapters really start to get longer. It's also where I feel like my writing started to get better.🙂

Chapter 10

It is a very special and beautifully written proposal @DaniRose2143 ❤️ The full moon background is very lovely and romantic. 
It is great that Liberty and Matteo’s relationship is going well also.

Who doesn't love a romantic proposal under the Tartosan Sun?

@ChrinnieSims @rosemow 

Thank you very much🙂 I’m having a lot of fun going back and looking at these chapters again two years later. One of the things I notice most is the plumbobs over their heads. One of the first things I do now when I launch my game is turn off headline effects.

I have to remind myself of that.  No one needs to see a plumbob over a sim's head in a screencap LOL.  Mainly because sometimes it takes some time to get a sim to do as I want (since Pose Player is broken, along with Teleport Any Sim ATM) so they wind up glowing yellow or red and then you have to deal with the "take care of your sim!" comments lol

It is great that you are enjoying looking back at the start of your story @DaniRose2143 🙂 It would bring back lovely memories of special times in the lives of the ladies. 

@ChrinnieSims The part I have to remind myself of is turning headlines back on so I can adjust lights. I keep thinking it’s broken because the slider and colors don’t show up. Then it hits me😊

The lights don't work if you don't turn it back on @DaniRose2143 ?

@ChrinnieSims The panel that allows you to choose the color and adjust the brightness is connected to headline effects. It took me a couple of months of thinking it was broken until I finally figured it out when I forgot to turn headline effects off once.🙂

On we go...

Chapter Eleven

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18154297/#Comment_18154297

I was going to post chapter 12 along with this one but when I went back and read through the chapter again I noticed that the Imgur censor went through and removed almost all of the hot tub scenes with Liberty and Matteo. I'm trying to decide if I should go ahead and post anyway or try and find those pics again and re-upload and replace them. 

It is great that the wedding plans for Danielle and Londyn are going well and that Londyn has been asked about some small tv show roles  @DaniRose2143 🙂 It is very nice that there will soon be another wedding proposal coming up soon, with Liberty.

I'm back with the next chapter. I mentioned yesterday that Imgur had removed some screenshots from this chapter sometime in the last year and a half. I couldn't find the original copies to upload them again, but I did, miraculously, still have an old spare save left at the bottom of my saves list so I went ahead and reshot the hot tub woohoo finale that Imgur deleted. Without further adieu...

Chapter 12

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18154452/#Comment_18154452

Congratulations to Liberty on getting her promotion in her career 🙂

@DaniRose2143 NGL, Matteo is about to find out the hard way that..... you do eventually need to rest up from all of the.... thanking... shall we say? LOL

Matteo's a cutie pie, and Liberty is so beautiful  

It's also great your posting in here slowly but surely. It's like it's such a good story and so well written that it is hard to stop reading once you start!  I love it!

@rosemow Thank you. As the story goes on I feel like Liberty is the character that grows and changes the most. She went from this clumsy, shy geeky girl who had some self esteem issues, to a vibrant, strong, confident young woman. When we first met her she was living in the shadow of her two best friends when it came to being seen as attractive and desirable, and now she knows when she walks into a room with her besties there are as many eyes on her as there is on Summer, Danielle, and Londyn. They form what they call 'The Sisterhood'. In later chapters we'll meet the fifth member of the Sisterhood, Matteo's fiery sister Allegra.

@ChrinnieSims Thank you so much.😁 It feels really good when another writer says how much they love your story. I know it does to me and I always try to pay it forward as I meet other writers or would be writers. Your writing is fabulous. You can say so much with a few words. 

I'll give you fair warning as we get deeper into this the chapters are going to turn into small novels so when we get to those I may slow down and post every other day, or third day. I don't want to overwhelm readers. I try and aim for 1500-2000 words at most but sometimes I go over. Way over even.😊 I have a second story that I have on an offsite blog but I need to check with Cade to see if I'm allowed to share links with people via DM. It's not so much adult content as it is adult language, there are some swear words here and there. That one has a wild mix of characters, aging divas, up and coming starlets, vampires, and drag queens, a little bit of everything.😁 It hasn't been updated since November. I got a bit burned out and I'm finally getting the irresistible itch to write and create again.

It's really fun to reread and compare your earlier characters to their current status and see how they've grown and matured. And how you've matured as a writer.