The icon says it all (with a smile)

[strangetomato]

Don't ask me why I was so dedicated to the task of making an icon with Ripp giving you all the finger, but once the idea popped into my head, it became a personal challenge (and you never know when something like that could come in handy, right?). Sim hands are ridiculously stumpy and lacking in detail, so it looks pretty goofy and a little like one of those foam sports hands that fans wave, but I think it came out looking okay, don't you?

The stupid grin keeps it playful, so even when used to tell someone to sit on it, it doesn't appear overly aggressive. I can easily imagine Johnny on the receiving end of this gesture, instead of, say, Tank. 

I have writer/simmer's block. Can you tell?

Comments

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

"that's exactly what happens." OH AWESOME. I LOVE MINT!
And it doesn't need to make sense. You write well enough that we'll be distracted...

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I do like Mint, and she'll probably be coming into her own as a character soon. It gets distracting to have so many characters, and it's impossible to feature them all equally and still have some sort of focus to the story (if that's possible at all), but I like to have all the supporting cast pop in from time to time.

Yeah, I'll polish that turd so well, you'll never even know there was absolutely no content. :P

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

I have difficulties focussing where I want my plot to go too (although my story is nowhere near as developed as yours). There are just so many sims!

Ooh, shiny turds! Just what the doctor ordered!

(Also, the explosion sounds like an awesome idea. I don't want to post hundreds of comments on the same entry though... Eternal Winter, and Johnny would have escaped because of the aliens. Ripp and Phi would assume he'd died though, and then VALI takes over the world!)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

My story is a hot mess in places. I know this. I'm going to have to just go with it, and explain it away in what I hope is an amuisingly self-aware manner.

*snicker* It's all about the shiny surface.

Yeah, it has some good potential, doesn't it? I like the drama it would bring.

Vali does need to take over the world. Maybe that's how the story will end.

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

That is actually believable. Vali has the evilness and intelligence to get away with it, even though he's a toddler. He's like Stewie, from Family Guy.

(It's not like it's a published book, so it can have lots of plot holes. Ripp will fall into one, and appear in our universe! And give us all the finger.)

Okay, I'll stop spamming you now.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Heheh. I need to get the story to a point where I can make use of Vali's birthright of evil. He's a great little terror.

Yeah, that's very true. Anyone who expects more than that is expecting too much. It's pretty obvious that I'm making up a lot of it as I go along, right? ;)

I don't mind. I'm procrastinating from various things here. But, yeah... I should go now. It's late here.

Thanks for gabbin' with me.