It's hard though! It's been 8 years, and I still haven't made any progress, either with the drawing or my skill level. I really want to get it done, though. It's an AU version of what the kids might look like in our modern world. Eddie is being a pain as usual.
I'm getting there. I've carried over almost everything worth carrying over. It's been a long journey, but I think it was worth it. Why didn't I just import my WP backup, I hear you ask? Because as I said, my old blog was a hot mess. I had a lot of pointless posts left over from my Sims fansite days. My KI Rabid Fangirl days can be really annoying even to me. Many entries needed cleaning up and updating. I got lazy with my <p> tags from about 2013 onwards. The amount of tags I used was crazy stupid. Plus with all my images being hosted either on WP itself, or even worse, Photobucket, I wanted to get all my images in the one place and in a portable format, because I don't want to be on Blogger forever. Like I said, Blogger is an inferior platform compared to WP at its best.
One thing I will say in WP.com's defence is that they never censored me. I'm pretty sure that back in my Torrent Queen days, T$R made at least one attempt to get my blog closed. Blogger has banned my post on why I Continue reading
Let's see how good my memory was. I managed to find some pictures of the packaging for Superstar Sindy. There are two sizes, and I seem to remember having the larger one. I downloaded these several months ago, and unfortunately I can't find the original images, nor does TinEye show any matches. So my apologies to the original photographers. If I do find out where I got them, I will credit you appropriately.
Here's my original memory:
My mum also threw away the original packaging for my Superstar Sindy. I used to keep it under my pillow and look at it every night before I went to sleep. There were photos of the other dolls in the range, and they had such cool 80s fashion. I think one had glass-style boots. I totally wanted that one.
So, let the healing begin!
Continue readingI'm in the process of going through my old WordPress blog, post-by-post, choosing which to carry over and I got to this one and noticed this:
Link to the 2014 Wayback Machine archived post in case you think I edited it!
I beat you to it, Reardon!
Seriously though, Ann Reardon is cool and has such a soothing voice. Check out her channel!
My niece is five now, and I've been trying to teach her the clapping games. I tried to remember some of the songs we used to sing as kids.
Before we start, please remember that these songs are products of their time and therefore might be considered a little offensive at times. When teaching my niece, I will alter these to make them acceptable, but I'm documenting them here just for a record of my school days.
I don't know how this name is meant to be spelt. It's pronounced like "eye", "shoe" and "shweila" to rhyme with the name "Layla/Leila". I can't find a record of this particular variant. I've also forgotten how the first line goes, so I've taken it from others that I've seen online.
Continue readingAll right, I'm still setting up all my stuff here. I didn't think I'd see the day where I would move from WordPress to Blogger, and yet here we are. Even if I never triggered the sidebar glitch, it was only a matter of time before WP's "change for change's sake" drove me off. Despite that there is so much objection to the Block nonsense, they are still insisting on pushing it on everyone. The Classic Editor is due to be phased out from next year, and once that happened, I would have had to leave anyway. It's a shame, it really is. Anyway, enough of the angst.
Compared to WordPress at its best, Blogger is severely lacking. For one thing, the media uploader is terrible. You can't drag and drop as you can in WordPress, and when you access your media gallery, you're shown a gallery of everything, with the oldest images first, and no way to search or filter.
Wordpress
This is the new home of silverssimstuff.wordpress.com for the foreseeable future. I'm currently working on archiving some of the more significant/better (I use that term loosely) posts, so please be patient while I sift through my archives.
I'm done with WP.com's glitchy crap and "upgrades". Nuking my sidebar was the last straw. I hope to return home one day, but WP is making that look increasingly unlikely. I'll keep my old blogs up, and I won't transfer most of the Sims stuff here, despite the name (outtolunch was taken). I'll try to get some form of navigation here to the stuff there in case there's still any demand.
[This post and all prior to this are from my old WordPress blog]
I've been blogging with WP since Jun 2007. That's 14 years (not including the many years I blogged with the .org version). I've always liked how user-friendly the software is, and even though the .com version lacks the flexibility of the .org experience, it was still a solid, easy-to-use piece of software. And despite being annoyed by all the "upgrades", I've stuck with it.
And now it seems WordPress doesn't really want me here anymore.
The changes to the editor were the first push. But so far, I can still get the old editor to work, so I keep on blogging. But it's getting worse.
I tried to make one tweak to bring back the link to the Storytelling page in the sidebar, and my entire sidebar was gone. Despite assurances that my old widgets are safe, none of them were.
Continue reading Okay, I'm past chapter 400, and my gosh, Sasuke is more annoying than Sakura now. He's even more annoying than Anakin, dammit. How does this whiner have such a big fanbase? Anyway, here is some general snark for what I've read so far.
Firstly, the Kakashi Gaiden:
I actually spent £7 on Volume 27 just for this. Minato is the best thing about the series. He's such a cupcake! So wholesome! Dammit, Kishimoto.
Also, I watched Tsunade's Infinite Tsukuyomi dream, and why do you do this to us, Kishimoto? Why?! Tsunade's tsukuyomi dream is forever my headcanon!
Anyway, on to the snark...
Continue readingThis is my Japanese version of Delta Goodrem's Not Me, Not I. Lyrics by me, with corrections by my good friend Yuki-san. Instrumental here:
| 弱っていくよりもむしろ強くなってる | VERSE Yowatteku yorimo mushiro tsuyoku natteru |
VERSE Rather than getting weaker, I am getting stronger. |
| いいえ、私は傷ついたが大丈夫になる。 | Iie, watashi wa kizutsuita ga daijoubu ni naru. | No, you broke my heart, but I'll be okay. |
This first two here are canon... guess one of the assistants forgot to ink the lines, heh heh.
The rest are all my edits, because I wanted to. Copyright belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
Whoa, I was sure I was going to go down in the ranks this time, because I haven't really been keeping up with the astro stuff these last couple of years.
Yay me.
I am going to get so much mileage out of this panel.
So a couple of weeks ago, I ploughed through the entire saga so far, and wow, I didn't realise just how bad it was. Now, in my defence, it was meant to be a simple, mostly light hearted, short story, and I kinda made it up as I went along, but it ended being a lot more complicated and dark than I had originally planned. The early chapters, even after revisions, still feel very cobbled together. I think they need a complete rewrite.
The bigger issue I have is with Jasmine though. I don't like how emotionally dependent she became on Ash and I guess I was drawing a little on my own experiences there, because I, too, was that pathetic co-dependent fiancée at one point. I really feel that her dependency should have been addressed, and shown for the unhealthy behaviour it was. Plus there was a lot of enabling behaviour from her social circle that should have been addressed too. And people cried far too much, it was ridiculous.
So... you know how the in-game screenshot tool stopped working last time I used it? So I moved the whole Sims 2 folder out, let it reset, checked screenshots worked again, then put the folder back in but without downloads, checked the screenshots still worked, then used binary sort to find out which download was causing the issue, ended up restoring every download file without it botching the screenshot function, and so I don't even know what was going on there. EA just sucks, amirite?
Does this mean that I will finally finish Jasmine's story? I want to, I really do. I vaguely remember what was supposed to happen, but I feel that I really need to sort out what I've already written, because it's so badly written and it bugs me. But I think if I do, I'll do it Dreamsong style: prose with the odd screenshot, rather than the photo album format. Speaking of which, I never finished Dreamsong either.
I'm not the only one who's noticed this, right? #TeamAmyRose
