I am really post-spamming aren't I?

Meme gacked from korekara:

Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, and what significance it has.

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Sim Org Progress

I'm working on my Org 13 sim families again. I've been consentrating on making the sims themselves and leaving housing them for later. I'm not sure how wise that is because renovating and furnishing houses can be a bit tedious even at the best of times - there's many little details to remember to put in - like remembering to paint walls, install lights, burglar and smoke alarms... meh.

So far however I have Xigbar, Xaldin and Vexen done. I can't repeat enough how damn useful it is to make parental sims out of the same sim as the child. It take a bit of fiddling with facial features to make sure they look okay and don't look like the kids is a total clone of them when they grow up (something I aught to consider dealing with in the Kingdom household - at least with Skye because Sora is going to end up practically identical to him).

So far every Org family has at least one parent who's base sim is the same as their child - Xeha's mum, Xigbar's dad, Xaldin's mum, Vexen's dad (*blinkblink* didn't notice that I have been evenly trading genders on it so far).
I also aught to consider some single parent families where the lone parent is the father because both Xeha and Xaldin have single parent families with only a mother to show for it.

However, at the moment, I feel like going upstairs, with my cup of tea and the bookmark I have been making and setting Krull to play so I can listen to it while I draw on this bookmark some more (it's just a piece of white card cut to aproximately bookmark size which I'm going to cover with my special style of drawing).

P.S. enelar, I totally see what you mean about some of them being ugly babies - Xaldin has a decidedly pinched face as a toddler.

Blaise Draconis - aka Me nattering about a Badur's Gate OC of Mine

I think it's because a couple of the skintones I'm trying to download for the Sims 2 are black ones that I got thinking on drow (Genensims had at least one black skintone labeled "Drow") which in turn got me thinking of the one drow I probably have the most interest in - Solaufein - which in turn made me think of my Twit that I played through the Sola romance with - Blaise Draconis.

Last time I played BG2 through it was the fact that I read somewhere that the Solaufein romance is totally equal oppertunity that I started playing the Draconis game again after months of ignoring it.

Yeah, slash made me play BG again.

I guess one of the drawbacks of getting into slash was that I lost interest in playing BG because all the romances in it were het ones - the romance wouldn't activate unless you had a mod that cut the restrictions but that would have even more WTFery than the slight implications I ran across in Sola's dialog that implied that Weimer was thinking hetronormatively when he wrote it.

( Wherein I contemplate Forgotten Realms religion )

So after all that pointless thinking on an OC for an old game most folks on my Flist will not be familiar with I suddenly have this idea that some time I think I will try making sims of Blaise and Solaufein and dumping them in my neighbourhood.
Blaise can take a military career.