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This whole thing was rather fuzzy, until she told me that she wants to challenge me in chess. You'll understand later why this was a turn of events.

And the next moment she's just... gone. I have no idea how she does that.

Marina is gone and Mia stands there, looking at where Marina was just standing.

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One moment she's there and you greet her.

Mia comes out of the house and waves to Marina.

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When it comes to Marina, she is rather strange.

Marina stands outside the house that Mia and Dela are squatting in.

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Marina also wanted me to learn a few new things, one of which was to play the piano. She said it would foster my creativity. But I'm quite creative already, so I'm not sure if it was really about that.

Mia plays the grand piano on the balcony of Willow Creek Museum.

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Hack? Yup, that too.

Mia hacks a computer at Willow Creek Library.

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Paint? Yes, I can do that.

Mia looks at the painting she's working on.

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Long introduction short, I'm an artist and a developer (programmer, if you will), and Dela is a Style Influencer. This turned out to be one of the reasons to why Marina wanted my help. She needed someone who could paint and who could code, specifically someone who could penetrate computer systems.

Magnolia Blossom Park. Mia paints on a canvas on an easel and Dela uses her phone. There are flowering pink magnolia and sakura trees in the background.

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The person who had just barged in like she owns the place... I mean... Ahem... Where was I? Right, the person who came for a visit, her name is Marina and she's a Royal Envoy from Ondarion. (Fancy!) But what really surprised us was that she needed our help. Or 𝘮𝘺 help, to be more specific.

Marina comes up to Mia and Dela. Mia and Dela look at each other.

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Before we could decide what to do about it, she entered. Maybe we should've locked the door. Not that it would really have mattered, because this house has some pretty big windows, so you would totally see us, but anyway.

Mia and Dela are sitting on the sofa. They look at each other as Marina enters the house.

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But let's go back to the current year. One day someone knocked on the door.

The Royal Envoy Marina Corsair. Marina has dark red hair, tan skin, freckles, and green eyes. She's wearing eyeshadow, eyeliner, red lipstick, golden jewellery, a black blouse, a pair of dark green stays with a golden pattern, black trousers, and black heels. Marina stands outside the front door of the house.

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We moved to Willow Creek 5 plus years ago. Time really flies, huh? I barely know what we've been doing since then, it's almost as if... no one watched us. Anyway, this is a photo of us back then. This also happens to be one of the photographer's favourite pictures from that year.

Mia and Dela have a water balloon fight in Foundry Cove Community Garden in the summer of 2020. Dela looks startled as she was just hit with a water balloon, and Mia has just thrown a second water balloon which is heading towards Dela. Mia is wearing a blue T-shirt and a pair of jeans shorts. Dela is wearing a pinkish purple sleeve-less blouse, black, frilly shorts, and silver coloured sandals.

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Well, we do go inside the house sometimes. No one lives there. It was unlocked. So I guess we're just squatting, for now.

Mia and Dela watch TV in the living room.

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𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦! In the tent.

The tent right in front of the house. It's a big, beige, two-person tent with blue and orange details.

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No, not 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.

Looking in through one of the windows of the house. The walls are red and white, the kitchen has red and white counters, cabinets and appliances, the dining area has a glass table with a plant on top of it, and orange chairs, and the living room has a big TV on the wall and a black sofa.

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Here!

A close-up on the blue-grey house. It has a mostly flat roof, with one pointy bit in the middle. The walls are partly made of blue-grey wood and partly grey bricks. There's a metal fence around the house. In front of the house, inside the fence, is gravel, a cactus, and a two-person tent that barely fits.

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We live in Willow Creek.

Aerial view of Foundry Cove, Willow Creek.

Houses and their inhabitants:

A white and blue, four-level house with three balconies - Sierra Moss, Naomi Foye, George L'Ernitage, and Scrubs De Reve

A small, grey house, with a big tree and a medium backyard - Alex Moyer, Emily Parcel, and Callia Maebey

Garden Essence, a white house with a big backyard and a pool - Liberty Lee, Travis Scott, and Summer Holiday

A blue house with a big backyard and a big tree - Alina, Melanie, Max, Tasha, and Carina Hawley

A small blue-grey house - Uninhabited, kinda

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Hi, I'm Mia, and this is Dela, my girlfriend.

Magnolia Blossom Park, Willow Creek. Maxis-made sims Mia Hayes and Dela Ostrow. Mia has blonde hair, brown eyebrows, blue eyes, and fair skin. She wears a blue beanie, a blue pendant in a copper coloured chain, eyeliner, lip gloss, a green T-shirt, black jeans, and black boots. Dela has pink hair, brown eyebrows, blue eyes, and fair skin. She wears pink eyeshadow, pink lipstick, rouge, a beige tank top, a brown and yellow jacket, a black skirt, black tights, and reddish brown boots.

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Ilka is Modding @ilkamodding.bsky.social · yesterday

It's time to post a short story! #TheSims4

She knew she would love life in Sulani. Especially bath beneath the waterfall. Olimpia: I don’t understand why my family moved away from here, Cayenne. It’s so beautiful! I could spend all day sunbathing, fishing, and swimming! What’s now? You want a bath too? Well, would you look at that...

Kats @squeamishnerd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My more or less monthly reminder that we need more outfit slots and that I wrote in the feedback forum about it

Kats@squeamishnerd.bsky.social · last yr.

Every time I get a new #TheSims4 DLC I struggle with giving my sims new outfits with the new CAS items, because I rarely want to get rid of or adjust any of the outfits that they already have. So I finally went to the feedback forum to write about it 😌 forums.ea.com/discussions/...

Kats @squeamishnerd.bsky.social · yesterday

Yay, working fan! 🪭

Ahriman fans herself with the handfan from the Bridgerton event in TheSims4

What are your thoughts on the free maker "packs" (the non-ugly, non-boring ones)? I guess the free "packs" exist for statistics, to make the marketplace look good on paper, which makes me not want them in theory, it just feels wrong, but my brain is also like "Look! Free stuff!" 😅

Wow, the loading screen got even longer with this update 😅(I tried without mods, seems to be roughly the same time, so I guess it's a general issue)

Jenn @pomelosims.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you've tried both Control Any Sim and Sim Control Hub, which one do you prefer and why? Do they do basically the same thing? I use Control Any Sim, but it hasn't been updated in quite some time and it throws exceptions. Stumbled upon Sim Control Hub but haven't heard of it before (or I forgot)

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