take it down, extras

*warning: this is ridiculously long! No joke! *

Extras, outtakes, and misfits from the "take it down" season...

(I think I'll call them seasons now, rather than chapters. Does that make more sense? I mean, each entry is big enough to be its own chapter, right? Why didn't anyone ever tell me that made no freaking sense? lol! So since the collection usually spans about a season, it seems only logical. Season?)

Anyway, whatever we call it, this collection of stories was the longest EVER, and gave us a crapload of extras!!! These stories took me 8 months to write, covered five major story progressions and many independent pieces and mini-updates, and added up to a whopping 50,881 words!

(If I ever want to know why my novel isn't finished yet, I think I have my answer!)

Let us begin? ;)

August 2083: Just weeks before their wedding, Bella says, "If you die, I'm gonna be so pissed."

These Bradshaw women have so little faith in their men.

Random Robbie and Liza, from the school update. I think I was testing out the "allmenus" cheat, lol!

More random Robbie and Liza.

I'm telling you, people, if I were the type to set them up... ;)

So I just felt like taking a pic of my McCullough boys.

A picture on Madison's desk. Madison and Bryson Riley. They must have been so young here, early twenties or so.

I love it when you look in their inventories and find random photo booth pics that they took when they were off visiting some community lot somewhere.

Random pictures of dead people on random walls... On the left is Jimmy Phoenix and Brittney (Upsnot) Phoenix (yes, uni Sims from the Sim State University neighborhood), Micah's parents, Hayden and Jack's grandparents.

On the right, Micah Phoenix as a teen.

Chad and Riley Hathe at their senior prom. Happens to be just about the night Liza was conceived. Oops! ;)

Also found on Riley's wall, this is Jeremy Nova's first wife, Riley and Patrick's mother, Trista. I think Riley looks just like her.

"Aunt Charlotte, is it true that there's some magical being out there in the universe that's going to make me marry Connor some day?"

Charlotte says, "Where ever did you hear such a silly thing?"

This one just felt so telling for these characters, at this particular time in their story.

It was 8:00, and Connor was over for dinner, because Connor is always over there. And we might imagine Charlotte was over for dinner, because Paul works a lot of late nights, and the Gallagher babies were asleep in the other room. And Charlotte was telling some random story about how Leila burnt a pie at their shop, because for a stay-at-home mom, she really, honestly, can't cook a thing. And the Watts twins were really tired and fussy, but needed to eat something before bed. And there was Matt, quiet in the background, with a thousand things on his mind but not saying a word.

Like the whole story told in a snapshot.

Leila, honey, if you want to keep that a secret, maybe stop broadcasting it around town? Just a thought.

Really, will Dallas ever get too old to make faces at his ants? :)

Dallas says, "Dude, I think your girlfriend thinks I'm hot."

Well, at least we know where his loyalties lie? Even so, that conversation could NOT have gone over well!

Let us commence, Bitch-Fest 2083!

Seriously can't leave these two in a room with each other without one of them getting slapped.

Again, I just love it when Sims get random photo booth pictures on their own!

Beau and April totally didn't want to have that conversation. I had to force them into it! You know, because left to their own devices, they probably would have continued beating around it forever. But it was needed. And we're going for pain and anguish here, not smiles and heart-farts.

But April says, "But can't we just shoot a sex scene instead?"

And Beau says, "I could go for a sex scene."

And I say, "Dammit, people, cooperate here! I'm trying to write a story!"

But you know, a sex scene would be fun. Maybe later ;)

Was the baby-daddy.

I'm very, very surprised that not a single one of you even wondered out loud who the baby-daddy was!!! Really? You didn't want to know???

Well, anyway, this is Jared, one of her fifteen "boyfriends," lol! He's quite smitten with her, so it's probably best he never knew. He follows her around like a little lost puppy. He's not a fan of commitment either though, so he won't be too heartbroken about it.

First snowfall of the season, which I recreated (very badly) for this update.

James posing, lol! He was proud though - he worked hard on that car!

Lake City crashes my computer, no joke! But you can kind of see how big it is from this picture... you know, as the computer is crashing...

I just love Beau and April's apartment :)

Random, gratuitous shot of April's supercool boots!

Berjes, lol! This was when I was shooting Mariah's part of the update, and I left him waiting in the hallway so I could get her ready for his walk-by. Left him waiting a little too long, I suppose, because he got all diva on me, lol!

Oh, and these two...

Love/hate relationship much?

This was the front view of that pose I used for their last shot. It takes on an entirely different tone from the front, and is quite cute, actually. So I moved them in front of a wall, and did a little photo shoot with it, lol!

Again, the funny thing about wants is how they sometimes match up quite fittingly with my plans. Not that I want to give away where I see April headed, but these wants felt inspiring for a change. For non-TS2 players, that's learn lifelong happiness, and buy a pottery station, toycrafting station, and sell a great piece of art.

Oh, and prank someone, of course, lol! That one's just about always there :)