Anonymous asked: Hey, I love your story! I was wondering what the letters DJ stand for. Death Junior maybe? ^^

Answer:

Yep! Olive prefers not to have to explain that to people, but Grim thinks it’s cute.

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Because Tumblr Told me to: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone? → #reblog  #friendzone  #lol 

Anonymous asked: You've mentioned on several occasions that Dina has a thing for show tunes, and I was listening to a my music library today (which contains a few more musicals than I'd care to admit) and a certain song came up that I just have to ask you about. Have you heard Stars and the Moon from Songs for a New World? For a while niw I've been unable to see it as anything but Dina singing about Mike, Don, and Morty, in turn, and I've been dying to ask you your thoughts on it, and/or your Dina's thoughts.

Answer:

I love that song! :D It is a perfect song for Dina, though she would not be able to admit that to herself at first. It could also describe what would have happened to her if she’d married Mr. Big.

Part of why Dina likes showtunes is because in many old movies/musicals the “gold diggers” are cute and quirky rather than reviled. A lot of it is because of societal expectations and the opportunities for women in that time as compared to now. Dina is not confident in her ability to take care of herself (and she’s lazy as hell and knows it), so she finds some escapism in that world.

#ask  #thoughts on female characters  #dina caliente 

Anonymous asked: All this talk about "canon" interpretations is starting to look like a theological debate. Feels like I'm back in Catholic school or something.

Answer:

I’m sure I could come up with 95 sim theses. XD

I could also write a whole thesis on the parallels between fandom and religion. I’ve not seen one that didn’t remind me of the other in some way.

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Let them play sims: If any pre-made was growing marijuana in their garden, who would it be? → #reblog  #letthemplaysims 

Anonymous asked: Why is it so important to you to avoid common fanon ideas about the premade sims? Many of your comments make it sound like you dislike the rest of this fandom.

Answer:

I absolutely do not dislike this fandom or any of the people in it, or anyone who adheres to the storylines how Maxis intended, or the idea of fanon in general. In fact, I think a lot of fanon has been done so well that I feel insecure about trying the same thing. I adore some fanon takes on characters.

There are some fanon themes/ideas that I dislike because I find them to be misogynistic or problematic in some way, but that’s not the fandom’s fault, it’s society/culture. And the Maxis stories do indeed promote some of that, but in this game you don’t have to go along with it.

#ask  #maxis canon  #maxis premades  #sims fandom 

greenssims asked: If servos pick up the aspiration of their activator, does that mean Servo has two aspirations, since he was activated twice? and one's more like a bunch of subconscious impulses?

Answer:

Servo was just activated once, and retains the aspiration and personality template of that person. He’s been broken and fixed twice though, with both times leaving a major impact (amnesia and vampirism.) He was more confident in his original life because he was respected and treated as a person, and being intimate with Nina awakens that in him because it subconciously reminds him of when he was with Kaylynn.

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Anonymous asked: I wanted to thank you for having one of the most intelligent, believable, not-one-sided Mortimer-Dina conversations (Chapter 8: Vampires) in Sims Story History. The usual scenarios involve eeky patronizing, Mortimer a hopeless romantic, or Dina manipulating him (all which can get irritating and irrelevant to the plot). That conversation about the Servos I enjoyed because not only did both have interesting characterizations (again, applaud you), but they stayed in character, with a great end. :)

Answer:

Wow, thank you! Mortimer can be condescending, but Dina knows how to deflect that and keep up with him. I try and have the characters talk about things other than relationship stuff, especially the ones that are potential romantic interests for each other, and let the relationship/feelings show through the way they interact.

There’s another Mortimer/Dina scene in the next chapter. Hopefully you’ll like it. :D

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Anonymous asked: So we know Ichabod is tall, but do any other characters have varied/unusual heights? Any major height differences in couples?

Answer:

Bella is short, and Mike is a little shorter than average for a man (and would have been shorter if he hadn’t magicked his appearance so much.) I can see Olive and Rainelle as smaller than average too, so maybe it’s a witch thing?

Aliens are sort of the opposite to witches in my story, so Dina and Nina are taller than average for women (making them as tall to a little taller than Mike). Servo would be considered tall if he didn’t slouch so much.

I hadn’t really thought much about Olive’s height until this last update, where I started to see it as a Huge Guy, Tiny Girl situation with this rather small woman calling out and bossing around her much bigger partner (who is more or less a sim diety). Nervous will grow up to be very tall, though.

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mdpthatsme asked: I've been wondering, even though we may not see it in F&R, how would/do you interpret Ophelia and Olive's relationship? Some people either have Olive angered towards Ophelia or indifferent, what's your opinion?

Answer:

Well I usually try and do something different than fanon, so that would be the case here. F&R Olive is a family secondary, not a sociopath, capable of love, and she’s not going to kill her sister… so I’d say the relationship has a chance of being a little better. Olive would be overprotective of her sister’s child, especially because of what happened to Nervous, but since Ophelia is paranoid she might be okay with that.

They would probably have trouble seeing eye to eye because Olive is a “bad” witch and Willow was a “good” witch. The Muendas were healers and Willow was the perfect daughter who carried on the family business. Olive…didn’t find it to be her calling. So Ophelia would get her worldview shaken up at least.

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