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

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

I can't see the secrets because my Internet connection is awful right now, but from what I've read from this entry and the comments, I'm quite angry at these so called "secrets" >:(

No one has the right to hide behind the comfort of anonimity to humiliate someone in public, especially if said person is as nice as you are. You've never attacked someone in public as far as I know, so what the fuck did this person pretend when they posted that?

Don't pay attention to that, please. I can only wonder what people might think about me and my sims, but I couldn't care less. Yes, I play with pixel dollies and write silly stories about them in my free time, so what?! I also have a job, a family and friends. Sure, my social life could be "better" (in the "traditional" sense of going out every night), but that's more a shyness issue that I'm currently dealing with. I know my sims aren't real and I'm aware that my hobby is extremely nerdy but I have so much fun with them that it's almost relaxing when I'm dealing with anxiety.

*Sigh*

That community should be called sim_bitching instead. I think the mods should enforce similar rules as the ones in fandom_secrets and ban all personal attacks. I'm gonna suggest that to them as soon as my Internet lets me load the newest secrets entry.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

The secret about Strange_Tomato really wasn't an attack so much as a seriously backhanded compliment. The author basically said they LOVE the story, but think ST is scary obsessed with the characters (especially Johnny, Ophelia and Ripp), and that Ripp and Jaxy swear too much.