making some sims based off these christmas village sets i have because i can

 MERRY EARLY HOLIDAYS!!!

So I'm graduating from university in a little under a month. Ain't that something.
One more week of student teaching to go!!

Okay, remember that Sims 4 wishlist post I made basically celebrating the release of the Sims 4 for free this year?

I've already got nearly 200 hours invested into the game. Yeah.

In the game, I've made a handful of sims modeled after my own original characters. 
Now, this is going to sound completely random, but the whole reason I decided to make this post is to basically create a master list for a set of characters I want to make in the game in the future.

Every year after we celebrate Thanksgiving, my family always decorates for Christmas. Some of the things we set up are these mini Christmas village houses along with this Animated Village Skating Pond from Department 56!

If you see this, tell me in the comments if you have this skating set too! 

My family has had this set ever since I was really young, and Christmas overall is a super nostalgic holiday for me. I figured it'd be a neat idea to bring these little figures to life!

Sidenote: the particular set of Christmas village houses my family appears to be modeled after real-life houses in Germany, so I've figured the following characters will be of German nationality (or they've otherwise moved to Germany from other European countries). I've always imagined they'd be neighbors who all live right next to each other.
I'll also include pictures of the skaters and their homes, so excuse any crusty ass photo qualities (and my equally crusty fingers)!

I've always imagined this first skater to be the youngest of the group. I think she'll be from England, specifically the city of Wells in the district of Somerset. I always imagined her as a shy person, so maybe she'd be the least familiar with the German language (although she'd probably know enough to communicate basic needs and feelings with others). I think she'd be the youngest of several siblings - let's give her three!

Let's call her Paige Seymour. She'll be eight years old and lives with her parents (Mr. and Mrs. Seymour) and her older siblings, Breanna (ten years old), Leonard (often called "Lennie", thirteen years old), and Allen (seventeen years old). Paige doesn't have the greatest relationship with any of her siblings, as they treat her (in her view) like a "servant" - hence, she prefers to hang out with the other kids in her neighborhood.

Here are the front, back, left, and right side views of the Seymour house. I'd always imagine it'd be a slightly crowded but warm home. Mrs. Seymour would definitely be the kind of mother to bake the tastiest treats and the smell would easily drift through every room! Let's call the home Potter Place. Ha, alliteration.

I've always seen these two skaters as siblings. They'll probably originally be from Saint-Émilion in the region of Bordeaux, France, a small but beautiful city. They'd probably be the typical caring, well-meaning-but-strict-when-she-needs-to-be older sister and playful, gets-on-your-nerves younger brother.

Let's call them Vivienne and Gaspard Thibault. She'd probably be twelve years old and he nine.

Here are the front, back, left, and right sides of the Thibault house. As the nameplate on this house indicates it's a printing "business", I'd imagine Mr. Thibault to be self-employed as one of those newspaper writers/printers who receives calls from all over the village regarding notable events. Furthermore, their mailbox would probably always be full of letters and photos of said events. There's probably a whole room in this house that's solely been converted into a work office for Mr. Thibault's business, lol.

Given their father's business, the Thibault siblings would probably be fairly popular among their friend group. Gaspard would definitely be the kind of person to stick his nose in other people's conversations then proceed to run home and tell his father about everything in the hopes he'll put it in his newspapers. Vivienne, on the other hand, would be more concerned about making sure the news tells the truth and only the truth; to her, fake news is no news! She'd be the one to correct everyone's grammar and make sure to get all sides of the story, things like that. Let's call the home Magrath Cottage (and in turn, the newspaper would probably be published by Magrath News).

I've always seen this particular skater as the oldest kid in the village (by that, I mean "main" kid in this cast of characters - I know I've said Paige's oldest brother Allen is seventeen but he's not, like, part of the main cast). I think he'll be a native German and he probably moved to this little village from a larger city. Being the oldest in his neighborhood, he's likely prone to bossing everyone else around (which is kind of awkward knowing most of his neighbors are girls).

Let's call him Karl Busch. He'll be fourteen years old.

Here are the front, back, right, and left views of the Busch house. Karl lives here with his parents and two younger brothers, Erwin (ten years old) and Jakob (six years old) - I always imagined he'd be the eldest in his family. I actually looked up the name "E. Staubr Bärker" and found this exact home being sold online! I believe the approximate translation of the name is "the dusty baker", or something like that. Therefore, I think he and his family would run this whole mini bakery out of their home. Similar to the Thibault family and their newspaper business, I'd imagine Karl to be fairly popular with his friend group despite his bossiness, lol.

I think his home would be called Kirkham Lodge. I may or may not keep the "E Staubr Bärker" as the name for their bakery.

Last but not least, the skater that I always saw as my favorite of the group! I think she'd be a Norwegian national, specifically from the town of Flekkefjord. I always saw her as a prim and proper young lady who's a little hesitant to try new things at first, but once she gets into them, she'll let her enthusiasm be made clear. Her name will be Vendela Hall and she'll be thirteen years old.

Here are the front, back, right, and left views of the Hall house. Vendela is an only child and just lives here with her parents. Inspired by the "Tassy's Mittens" sign on the front, I'd imagine Mrs. Hall would be an expert knitter who's been accustomed to sewing clothing for her daughter. She doesn't run a business out of their home but is willing to sew anything for anyone in town, with or without charge (she insists her services are free as she especially wishes to help those who are in need but doesn't mind tips!). 

The home will be called Langhorne Terrace.

AYO?? 🤨

DISCLAIMER: There's a (depending who you are) creepy image featured in this post. I'll warn you again when I'm about to show it, but if you don't want to see it, feel free to just click away.

So earlier, I had this creepypasta iceberg video playing in the background while I was doing an assignment (and also slacking off from said assignment), and one of the stories they mentioned was called "Anomaly". It's basically an image creepypasta centered around several cryptic photographs and their corresponding equally cryptic captions.

Now there's a certain character in this story named... get this:

Lily Palmer.

I was lowkey surprised. I HAVE A CHARACTER NAMED LILY PALMER!

For reference, here's what my Lily looks like:

(This was made with a dress up game. Click the image to go to the source!)

And here's the "Lily Palmer" mentioned in the "Anomaly" creepypasta:

LAST WARNING: I'M ABOUT TO SHOW THE CREEPY IMAGE. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE IT, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO CLICK AWAY.

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Now before you say anything, I was completely UNAWARE my character's name was being used for a creepypasta character. The story itself was written in 2012, maybe earlier - LONG BEFORE I even conceived the idea of my own Lily. So of course, it'd be totally wrong to accuse the author(s) of this story of "stealing" my character's name.

But yeah, that's pretty much all there is. My OC is now a creepypasta character. 🥴

What a nice early Halloween surprise!!

rookie scares 👻

For context, I'm a student teacher. I work in a second-grade classroom in a suburban neighborhood where quite a bit of these kids come from not-so-great homes where their parents may or may not supervise them all the time properly.

There are two particular boys in my class who appear to be REALLY into scary things. Despite being like, seven or eight years old, they already seem to be in that edgy teenager mindset where they seem to be not scared of things and actively choose to look them up. I'll call them "Doodles" and "Swiper". You know, for funnies. And to keep their identities private, of course

Doodles seems to be super into the Trevor Henderson monsters, particularly "Cartoon Cat" and "Siren Head". No joke, he... well, doodles those things on almost EVERY loose-leaf paper he gets his hands on (even assignments). Now, yeah, I know these things do look scary at first glance (depending on who you are), but it gets less scary when you see/learn they're used in Elsagate content.
Funnily enough, I already knew about Trevor Henderson's work before even walking into this classroom. I even casually mentioned one day, "yeah, I know them", when Doodles talked about the monsters he drew.

Swiper, on the other hand, seems to be into the SCP monsters. Whenever he has the opportunity, he'll look up images of some of them (particularly the plague doctor) even when he's really not supposed to.
Again, I already knew about SCP beforehand and even casually mentioned that I knew about them one day. Similar to the Trevor Henderson monsters, the SCP franchise has probably been milked to death my this point (*cough cough Elsagate got them too*) and has progressively become less scary to me over the years.

It'll probably never happen (considering it'd probably inappropriate for an adult to expose kids to this kind of stuff), but I'm just WAITING for the day when I'll be able to show these kids the true horror that is CREEPYPASTA. 
The kind of things Doodles and Swiper are obsessed with? Those are rookie scares. You've never experienced true horror unless you've stumbled upon things like Jeff the Killer, Slenderman, Candle Cove, and Ben Drowned back in the day. 
Now THOSE things kept me up at night.

Bonus points if you've ever listened to MrCreepyPasta, CreepsMcPasta, and other narrators back in the day as well. 
None of that clickbaity garbage where YouTubers would be all quirky and overdramatic just to be engaging and put more than half their faces in their thumbnails. Just straight-to-the-point narration with little to no visuals. 

Again, that's TRUE HORROR RIGHT THERE.

Update (10/17/2022): I can't believe I forgot about those random "ghost caught on tape" videos I used to look up back in the day. I got so spooked by those creepy photographs (even though a lot of them are probably fake 🙃)

i never thought i'd make a shrine dedicated to a fictional character that may or may not be problematic but here we are

whaddaya know, Gabriel from THE MANDELA CATALOGUE has been infesting my mind lately ˙·٠•●♥

╔═══*.·:·.☽✧    ✦    ✧☾.·:·.*═══╗

i never thought i'd revisit the idea of an 

angel and a devil fallen angel being together 

but i've decided it will be a thing and i don't care 

if people think it's cringeworthy ~~~

╚═══*.·:·.☽✧    ✦    ✧☾.·:·.*═══╝

❦ Father Gabriel and Caelus Cælia Fidem ❦

PSSSSST: click on the artwork of Priest!Gabriel for its 

original source (and artist?). I'm not sure what the original source 

of the artwork on the right is, I found it on Pinterest.

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You know, I didn't initially plan for them to have human "disguises" or whatever, but maybe they indeed will. After all, Gabriel needs a way to deceive mankind and they need some way to meet, anyway.

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CAELUS FIDEM   

 BELOVED SERAPH OF GOD 

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Caelus Fidem, alias "Cælia Fidem"  as a human,

is perhaps one of the only remaining seraphim

left in this world... and in the next one as well.

They are many, many years old and have 

witnessed, well, quite a lot, to say the least 

thanks to the doings of humankind.

By chance, they find themselves torn between

their allegiance to the Almighty and their

inner feelings... especially those toward a

certain archangel 

ẁ̷̬̱̮̖̗̬̩̯̰̦̭̤̉̓͌̆̒̾̇̿̎̓̎̀͠ͅͅh̵̢̢̹͈̜̰͓̯͈̲̦͈̙͒̀̊̑͐͘͝ͅo̶̭̣̣̼͕͓̠̥̳͉͔̥̰̞̐̋̂̎̉̆̔̃̄̀ ̸̘͂͜͠w̴̅͆̀̄͐̈͂͊͛̂̀͜ȉ̸̛̲̦͕̜̱͙̦̊̀̀̍̌̉̅̂̍͛͝͠l̸͎̩̠̳̪̫̻̹̀̒̓̀̓͐l̷̻͇̟̩͓̦̀̓͋͒̌ ̴̧̛͉̅̇̀̏̈́̌́̉͆͆͘͠͝b̵̨̛̮̯̜̼̟̱͉͗̍̐̇́ȩ̵̘̖͍̥͍́̔ͅç̶̱͈̯̠͔͐͂̂̓̒̀̃̀̈̆̏̍͝͝ͅo̵̡̨̖͈̺͎̰͖̫̲̞͕̦͂͆͂̍́̅̽͋̓̚͘͘ͅm̵̧̛̝̦͔̬̥̃̀͋̈́̓͑͒͋́́͐̽͝e̴̠͉̫̘̬̦͈̭͖̝͍̺̥͋̌̈́́̾́́̚͠͝͝ ̴̗̼̱̞͇̺̊̽̊̈́̈́͛̈̇͠ţ̶̡̨̛̰͉̖͍͓̤̂͛̉̑̐̕͠h̸̪͇͖͊ȩ̴̧̗̰̣͎̤͙͇̝̲͇̹͋͐̌͘͠ȉ̷̤̤̻̩͓̲̜̤̤͉̩͎͚̲͆̕ř̶̗̟̭̦͔̿̂̈͂̎̌̆͘͘͠ ̷̹͔̝̓̒̔̅Ȯ̸̡̧̝̳̯̪̰͚̱̓͂͗̾͊N̷̢̳̝̥͓̺̙̟̙̜̼͈̋̽̾̔̾̀̎̃͊̐̕͜͠E̵̢̙̾̅̿̾̈́̚ ̸̣̠͚̲̪̙̜̔̾̿T̴̜͉̏̇̾̋̑̋̿̀̑͋͋̕͠͝R̸̟̗͓̜̼̩͈̣̬̺̼̹͇̈́̀̐́̾̕͘̕͝Ŭ̸̡̙͠Ę̵̏͆̓̋̏́̏̆̆̀̚͘̕͝ ̴̨͈̹̼͖͙̳͕̈́͛̐̌͝S̴̢͉͍͓̘̰͚̗̼͓̠̙̘̐͛͒́̃̇͝͝A̶̡̮̠̼̝͓̣̒̊̽̈́͗͛̑̽̌̚͝ͅV̷̨̡̹͖̹͓̬͆I̵̢̡̦̱̪̭̲̥̥͆̃́̅̃O̶̢̢̙̫͚͇̗͚̙͌̇̈́̃̓͑́͗R̴͓̱͍̱̦̲̿̌̑̃̅̑̄͊̀̚͠

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we all know what gabriel's creepy sus true form looks like, well i'd imagine caelus' "true form" looks similar to one of those biblically accurate angels

ok but srsly

In all honesty, I'm running out of graphics to use in this "shrine" thing.

Although I might add a bit more after this little blurb

So I'm really into analog horror, right?

I've watched things like "Harmony and Horror", "Monument Mythos", and "The Walten Files", so it was inevitable that I would stumble across "The Mandela Catalogue" in my feed.

I admit I haven't delved a lot into the Mandela Catalogue as of writing this, but I do know for a fact that almost right away, I found myself weirdly... "enamored"? "Intrigued"? Not sure if those are the exact words to describe my fixation for the character of the (false) Archangel Gabriel, but his physical appearance and backstory is just so... interesting. And disturbing, of course.

Rather than straight up shipping myself with him (given my demisexuality and cringeworthy experience as a teenager shipping myself with a certain composer who inspired my screen name), I decided to rehash one of my original characters and repurposed them into Gabriel's romantic interest. That character is Caelus Fidem - they're actually a relatively old character of mine who was conceptualized all the way back in 2015. They're modeled after "actual" seraphim depicted in the Bible (and I guess general fantasy as well?). They're meant to be genderless, hence why I refer to Caelus by they/them pronouns. Their physical appearance leans more to the feminine side, though, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're a straight up biological female.

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𝖂𝖊'𝖗𝖊 𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖕𝖑𝖞 𝖒𝖊𝖆𝖓𝖙 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊.

"Good evening, my child."

"Ah..."

"I'm sorry, did I disturb your prayer?"

"Oh, not at all, Father. It's quite alright."

"Good, then. Still, pardon me, my child. I'm sure it must be nice being in such a place, having it all to yourself, where you are able to be closer to..."

"...God."

"...Yes. With the most omnipresent being."

"Father, I..."

"Gabriel. Father Gabriel, please."

"I am Caelia, Father Gabriel."

"Lovely, my child."

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"I don't know if I can ever go back there, love. I 

barely even recognize anyone, not even the 

Almighty Himself. Besides, you very well know 

what happened to His Son."

"You of all people should know what it's like to

fall from grace."

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❝ HUMANITY DESERVES NO SAVIOR! ❞

That's when "he" stopped... and listened.

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"I was never supposed to fall for such a being as yourself, my little lamb.
Yet here I am.
I will be your  o n e  t r u e  s a v i o r."

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