Sim_mania challenge entry + simsecret

[strangetomato]

I posted an entry for the latest challenge at sim_mania, if you want to check it out.

Also, check this out... Someone made a simsecret about me. That's pretty cool, but also way less fun than I imagined it would be. That's always the way, isn't it? There's a certain giddy thrill to realizing that someone has written your name on the wall of the highschool washroom, but then you realize that the rest of the sentence says, "...is a slut." (This may or may not relate to an actual event in my life.) Well, what are you going to do? I probably am too obsessed with these characters. I won't deny that. I think I have gotten too caught up in it all, really. It's probably unhealthy. (I'm also feeling that the fact that I've been posted about in a sim secret community might be a sign that I need to return to the real world. I really have fallen down a nerdy rabbit hole, haven't I?)

As for the second part... they must have started reading a different story, since both Jaxy and Ripp still swear like sailors. I don't think I really cut back on that much, if at all. *shrugs* They swear. Some people do. It's not all about them being "bad ass" (though that is a factor, for sure).

I keep intending to submit a simsecret, but I always forget or have trouble coming up with an idea. I considered making a joke secret about the simstorytellers comm, since it's so drama-free, but it never really came together. Maybe next time, I'll think of something.

ETA: I probably won't respond to any of these comments for a while. I have a busy day ahead of me.

Comments

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand the whole simsecret thing. Are they just little blurbs like that? Like stuff that people want to say but want to stay anonymous or something?

I need to help you think of something to say about simstorytellers. But I'm totally lame about coming up with stuff like that. :P

As far as having an unhealthy obesession... I don't think you have anything to worry about. IMO, it's not the sims per se, it's the writing. I asked my hubby once (when I was in the middle of writing To Fear the Dawn) if he would get so jealous if I wasn't writing about the sims... if I was just writing. Say, writing that novel I started back before we had kids? And he honestly thought and said he wouldn't. To him, it was just part of the game, and the game was stupid (to him.)

Well, I *think* I got him to realize that it's not just a game, it's something to write about. Something to get my inner muse talking.

There's nothing unhealthy about that, I don't think.

And ooooh, girl! You so bad now! You RAWK. I'm jealous. ;)

[mjo5oh.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand the whole simsecret thing. Are they just little blurbs like that? Like stuff that people want to say but want to stay anonymous or something?

YEP! You got it exactly.

We should get the whole simstorytellers community to make secrets! Make them dramatic and untrue, but no one will know they're just fake! They will start calling simstorytellers the new bitches of the sim lj community!!! But it will all just be a huge joke!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's the idea I was considering. It was something that came up in conversation with madame_ugly. I couldn't even think of anything to say in a joking way when I tried to think of something for a secret. Everyone is too nice. That's not really much of a complaint, though.

The fake drama secrets would be kind of funny, but do we really need to feed the drama machine? It seems to be running quite well on its own these days.

Heheh. Those bitchy simstorytellers are also getting into catfights over there. :P