Brilliant Minds: The Wainwrights of Sunset Valley
Chapter 141
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Happy Holidays!
It’s that time of year again! In the spirit of the season, the Wainwrights are posing for their annual holiday picture. Now that the family is far too big to try putting them all in one shot even on a year that did not have 2020’s track record, I decided to do one for each household instead.
This first one is the active household as it stands currently in the story. This time, Maria insisted that everyone look “festive, but classy” for Jessica’s first Snowflake Day. “No tacky t-shirts with bad puns or glowing reindeer antler headbands, please,” were her exact words. They were all happy to oblige, although nobody minded Boyd’s Santa hat or semi-questionably tacky tie. Buddy and Patches both got in the shot this time, too.
Since Blair’s household missed the fun last year, she took a cue from her parents and sister-in-law and did one at her house, too. She was a little less firm with the “festive, but classy” rule, and let Cycl0n3 pop on a candy cane top hat that he declared was classy, because, hey, it’s a top hat, right? She did her own hair up in a bow, and even grumpy Travis got festive with a Santa hat and holiday shirt. Even he doesn’t enjoy being a grinch on Snowflake Day.
This is Orion and Tara’s first Snowflake Day as a newlywed couple in their new home, so they posed for a holiday picture by the fireplace under the mistletoe.
Also, as a side note, I realized after I posted that while I updated the sims around town on the Children of Sunset Valley page, I forgot to update Orion and Tara, even though they were a main focus of the last chapter. So, that has been rectified, and they are now together reflecting their marriage in the “related to the active household” section.
Last, but not least, we have the Wolff-Sw0rd branch of the extended Wainwright clan and their holiday family portrait. They, too, heard about Maria’s “festive, but classy” request, but they put their own spin on it. Whether this has to do with the fact that Chris wore a cat t-shirt that said “Meowy Snowflake Day” while both Caleb and Hilda came to Grandma and Grandpa Wainwright’s holiday celebration sporting glowing reindeer horns last year has anything to do with it, is up to you to decide. Magnanimous guy that he is, Chris certainly would not want to run afoul of his dear sister-in-law/aunt’s expressed wishes, and Tad certainly would never troll his beloved, if not dramatic, sister, now would he?
That said, the outfits are classy, because, like his father, Chris feels that his holiday fireworks top hat and candy cane tie going with his snowflake suit fits Maria’s rules perfectly. As a bonus, the snowflake design hides the cat hair that dear old Diddy and his stray furry pals outside might leave on it. The rest of the family just went with holiday sweaters, and Morgana and Caleb went the extra step of a Santa hat, but they all had fun with it.
And with that, I hope all of you reading have a great holiday and happy new year!
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Screenshots and Outtakes, March 2020 Edition
This past week I’ve been playing more than I’ve been writing, which is both good and bad. Good because I was able to resolve some of the issues in my save. I never did a hard reset everything with master controller at 8+ weeks in, and I saw a post suggesting that after googling about some of my playing issues. It helped a lot! It took the load time from almost half an hour back to about 12 minutes, drastically reduced the amount of time it takes to save, and also fixed a glitch I thought might mean it had become corrupt and in danger of becoming unplayable. (It was crashing to desktop every time I put a YA male in CAS in that save if I clicked on sleepwear, but only in that save, and regardless of how, be it through master controller’s stylist option, the edit in CAS cheat, or just with the dresser.)
Anyway, it’s working much better now, so I’ve been able to play more. I like having the played game 3-7 sim days ahead of where I’ve written so I can keep more long term planning in mind without being so far ahead that I feel like I’ll never catch up. Amazingly, Boyd and Susan are both still alive through where I’ve played, at 93 sim days each, with their death flowers pulled from their inventories. Yay!
Since I don’t have a story chapter ready yet, though, I decided to put up another screenshot and outtake post in the interim. This one doesn’t have any animated woohoo fails, so it’s work safe.
Cheezey Sims 