Ok so on my new laptop Sims is actually blazing fast! So I’ve been playing again. It’s been a while since we had a sims story on the blog, so I thought I’d share this one.
I’ve been seeing people on Tiktok do this 1×1 room challenge where you start a sim in just a plain 1×1 square room and they have to take and sell photos of themself to make money to expand it and buy the basics. I thought that sounded fun.
If my sim is going to be taking and selling photos of herself, I made her into a generic influencer girl. Her name is Freddie and that was the name the generator gave her – I’d have given her a better name if I realized how much I was going to enjoy and keep playing this particular game! I also would’ve taken screenshots.
The 1×1 room.
Anyway, Freddie starts off in her 1×1 room and takes and sells a bunch of pics. It’s a rough start at first.
So embarrassing to have to sell photos of yourself in a 1×1 room.
But soon enough she made enough to expand the room and add a toilet, then a mini fridge, etc etc. Eventually she gets good enough at photography and selling her photos that she’s got a fairly decent little studio apartment/house deal going on.
She meets the guy from across the street – it’s one of the basic households that comes with the game, the “BFFs” house that includes a guy named Travis Scott. They fall in love and oops they end up having a baby. They named her B Boy (Chase was sitting next to me on the couch and I asked him what to name her, and that’s the name he gave me LOL)
Travis and Freddie
B Boy’s early life wasn’t great because Freddie didn’t have money for baby necessities. Plus she was too busy making videos on her computer and posting them trying to be a fashion influencer to spend much time with B Boy. But when B Boy was a toddler, Freddie had earned enough from her videos to move them into the cute little house next door and B Boy finally got her own room and bed and toys.
Freddie tried acting for a while but it didn’t go anywhere, so she switched to the social media carrier and did fantastic. She went viral numerous times, with millions of followers and eventually became world famous. It’s all she ever wanted.
Her relationship with Travis never wavered either. The two eventually secretly got married, but to maintain her fame, she never let him move in with her and B Boy. He had a key and came over all the time so he was still a regular in their lives, just not publicly.
They also adopted a cat named Oliver. One of B Boy’s traits was cat lover so of course they had to get a cat. And boy was that cat sick ALL THE TIME. Freddie was so irritated at having to take it to the vet every other day.
Oliver
Anyway, as it turns out, B Boy was a genius. She excelled in many skills as a toddler and then as a child, all on her own while Freddie was doing her influencer thing.
B Boy did great in school and eventually went on to college, where she graduated with all A+s. She went into the astronaut career, and quickly went up the ranks thanks to all of her skills she honed as a teenager.
Freddie meanwhile grew bored of the social media career and making videos, so she decided to try acting again. Right after she switched careers, she got an intriguing call from a person offering her a job as a secret agent. She accepted, and the very next day she stumbled into some government secrets she couldn’t sit on. So she blew the whistle, and got fired from her secret agent job. Well that didn’t last long. At least she can make some crazy youtube videos about her experience. She went back to the acting gig.
B Boy felt lonely. She’d had a boyfriend in high school, but she was an adult now and he was still a teen so she needed to find new companionship. On Love Day, she decided to send a flirty text – she had an acquaintance named Korey (who had a fabulous beard), and he seemed like the perfect option for a Love Day Date.
Seriously that beard is magnificent!
He responded to the flirty text inviting her to the bar, so off they went. When they arrived, B Boy tried some flirting, and that… didn’t go well. Korey didn’t like it. So she reverted back to some friendly interactions and… half of those Korey didn’t like either. B Boy was still in a very flirty mood so she tried to seduce Korey, and that made him INCREDIBLY mad. Like seriously their relationship bar went into the solid red. Annnnd they fought, right in the middle of the bar. B Boy won, because she’s jacked from working out to be an astronaut LOL But that Love Day did NOT go as planned. Seriously I had meant for them to date and I was going to move him in!
Back at the house, Travis called up Freddie to ask her out on their usual Love Day date. They went to a bar, had a good time, flirted, had some drinks. But then it was time for Freddie to go to work filming a commercial, so she left the bar. Control reverted back to B Boy who was back at home, asleep in bed.
A minute later, B Boy gets a phone call. It’s from a random sim expressing their condolences over the loss of Travis. What?! Sure enough B Boy is now sad over the death of someone close. Freddie gets home from work and she’s sad over the death of a spouse! What the heck happened! We just left him at the bar!
B Boy goes across the street to Travis’ house (the BFF house) and sure enough, it’s only his 2 roommates there now. She goes inside and there’s Travis’ urn right there by the front door. What the heck even happened!! I think I may have to add B Boy to that household temporarily to see if she can take the urn back to their house.
Wow.
Anyway, that happened. Wild. B Boy still had to go to work the next day. Freddie has the self absorbed trait, so while she still had a sad emotion, it wasn’t overwhelming and she was happy doing other stuff. Typical. I decided she needed a new romantic partner, so I opened up her menu of friends to see who she had the best friend relationship with that we could build a new romantic relationship with — and you’ll never guess who it is.
That’s right it was KOREY!!
So she invited over Korey while B Boy was at work and the two of them REALLY hit it off. Just as they were having their first kiss, B Boy gets home. She immediately walked up to Korey and declared him her mortal enemy!
Oh the drama!
I think I’m going to move him in and move them to the city in a nice apartment. They’ve really outgrown this little house. I want Freddie to retire once she hits elder (she already took one youth potion to deage) and I want B Boy to change jobs. I’ll update again at some point. Or I won’t. There’s no telling with sims.
4/11/25 update:
Oh gosh, what all has happened since I last updated?
Well first up – Freddie and Korey had a baby. They named the baby HANSEL (you have to say it like the announcer says “HANSEL” at the award show in Zoolander). Hansel was a creative baby who grew up in a creative artsy sim who loved to play music. So naturally he went to college for art. He became a very successful artist with a residency at a museum (or college? I can’t remember) and after a job switch, now he’s (after de-aging once) a first class entertainer who has mastered every instrument, as well as writing multiple best sellers.
Sadly, Freddie died. She aged up, and died of old age. I did try to beg to save her but alas. I stuck her urn in a weird little floating space above a staircase where her ghost couldn’t leave and eventually she faded away. Poor Freddie.
Also I did not move them. I kept expanding their house, which is now 4 stories tall (including basement). The house actually works really well and I think moving them would make me lose my interest in the family.
During college HANSEL met a townie named Becca. They hit it off and Becca got pregnant. So Becca moved in and she and the new baby (named Grizzly Cup – yes Cup not Cub, we have a cup from the Memphis Grizzlies and that is what she is named after) took over the huge attic space. In fact I blockaded them in there so Becca could take care of the baby, have a nice bathroom, a tv, a little kitchen, everything she needed — all without bothering B Boy and HANSEL while they worked on their skills and jobs.
(Becca with a weird glitched out Grizzly Cup)
Speaking of B Boy… golly what hasn’t she done! I think I’ve de-aged her 3 times at this point. She’s held a myriad of jobs and left at the top of every one. She’s mastered almost every skill except Gardening and Flower Arranging. She’s fulfilled so many lifetime aspirations. Currently she is in the Tech Guru career, but her aspiration is now to go to college again, so we’re trying to juggle college classes while also being very high up in the Tech Career. I’ve decided we are not de-aging her again and once she tops out of the Tech Career, I’m going to let her quit and go back to college full time since that’s what she wants to do. Enjoy her retirement leisurely taking classes at the local college.
So now onto Grizzly Cup. Once Grizzly Cup was a child and didn’t need round the clock care anymore, Becca moved out and Grizzly Cup took over the little bedroom on the first floor. Grizzly Cup is an imaginative child who loves stories and fairies and vampires and ghosts. Her aspiration was to become a vampire when she grew up. So I prepared her for that, while also building some creative skills as well as mischief. She did so well in high school, she graduated early, and went and found a vampire and got herself turned.
She went to college for villainy. She was doing great, until one sunny day she decided to walk home and burned to death in the sun. I teleported B Boy over there ASAP to beg but it was no use. I turned her into a playable ghost but all of her college progress was gone, so I shut the game down and started over from my last save.
I decided that was enough of vampirism, got her out of that, and she became a spellcaster instead. That’s a bit safer.
Grizzly Cup graduated college with all As and became a spy. That’s what she is doing right now. She’s also topped out of the spellcaster levels. Maybe we do werewolf next?
The weirdest thing of all though is that randomly, last night, HANSEL and B Boy decided they hated each other. I have no idea why. They have never hated each other, even though HANSEL was the product of the romance between B Boy’s mom and her mortal enemy, Korey. They’ve always gotten on well together, they dance together, open Christmas presents together, they had a great relationship. So I was shocked when last night I got a notification that they despise each other? WTF! I have no idea if this was a glitch or what. So I spent a while making them be friendly with each other until they were back in the green.
This pic was an accident, but there’s HANSEL working on a painting.
But then today I got a notification that HANSEL has an AWFUL REPUTATION?! He is a minor celeb due to his bestseller novels, his masterpieces hanging in art galleries, and his incredible music career. Like I have no idea how he got an awful reputation, he doesn’t DO anything besides practice? (He has the practice makes perfect trait, and I bought him the “needs no one” reward as soon as I could so I didn’t have to make him socialize).
Ok so in my head he is a tad… hm what’s the word… arrogant nerd dude. Like nerdy in his interests and all of his outfits have that borderline cosplay flair, and arrogant because he thinks he’s smarter than everybody… so really the awful reputation kinda fits? So I’m gonna lean into it.
Grizzly Cup and Santa chilling together
Oh and last thing, at one point B Boy adopted chickens. She named the Chicken Coop “Rupaul’s Chicken Coop” and all of the chickens after drag queens. Well at some point I accidentally deleted the coop (I think it happened when I was moving stuff underneath it in the basement) and some of the chickens disappeared or died or something. All that was left was Jaida Essence Hall, Jinkx Monsoon, Raja Gemini and Willow Pill. Jaida just disappeared at some point. I have no idea where went. Raja died of old age. So we just have Willow Pill and Jinkx Monsoon left. I moved them to the basement pool/bar area where HANSEL keeps his musical instruments and he feeds them when he goes to practice.
4/15/25:
HANSEL has died of old age. I had written the Book of Life for him but forgotten how to use it so I didn’t bind it to him or whatever it is you do, so oopsie. I decided to just let him go, I wasn’t doing anything with him anymore, he was just going to the same old topped out job everyday. His wandering ghost is annoying me so he may be GONE GONE soon LOL
B Boy retired from the Tech Guru career, and I did age her down one more time. Look, she was stuck at level 9 in the career for AGES and I had planned to retire her when she topped out and let her age up and just take classes at the college for fun since that was her new aspiration. But no matter what I did she wasn’t getting to level 10. She’s been stuck at 9 for a couple of days now, so I said fuck it, and last night I used the promote cheat to get her to 10 and then immediately retired her. Her aspiration involves going to college too much so she can’t do both at the same time.
(Also I figured out the B Boy/HANSEL altercations the other day. He got home from work and usually he just stands there or goes straight to like video games until I tell him to do something else, but I noticed as soon as he walked in the door he was making a beeline for B Boy. I looked to see what he was doing and he was going to go and he was going to “taunt B Boy about college superiority” (they went to different colleges). I googled it and turns out if a Sim has the childish trait, they will do this and make others mad! I had just given him the childish trait because I noticed he only had 2 traits so I went in and added a 3rd just a couple of days before. So that explains what was happening. I removed the childish trait and it never happened again!)
Grizzly Cup is a Super Villain. I don’t know what I want to do with her. I think I might let her be a werewolf? She has a werewolf friend. I haven’t done a lot with werewolves so it might be fun. Would be fun to start a little werewolf family.
4/22/25:
Now what’s the latest?
B Boy has again been through multiple jobs. After doing another stint at college, she first joined the military again and became a Sim-in-Black. Meanwhile Grizzly Cup had joined the Criminal career and had become a master hacker “Oracle.” Awkward! B Boy then accidentally aged up before I could give her a Potion of Youth again, so she’s been stuck as an elder. I decided to have her finish every single skill, and just as she as finishing up Painting… she died. ARGH.
BUT! Grizzly Cup had written her Book of Life. I got out of the inventory, had B Boy’s ghost read it to come back to life and… nothing. She’d read it and put it back on the shelf. And nothing would happen. I was ticked!
I eventually just went and bought some ambrosia out of the gallery and brought her back that way.
Since then she’s become a professor, retired, and now she’s a Paranormal Investigator. She and Grizzly Cup both have maxed out every single skill. They are very accomplished Sims!
Grizzly Cup left the Criminal career and joined the culinary career and she is currently a master mixologist. She’s also working on her spellcaster potion making to mixed results.
And yes, Grizzly Cup did start a little werewolf family. She was a werewolf for a while but I got tired of it and moved her back to spellcaster. But anyway, she met Wolfgang at a park and they hit it off. They accidentally got engaged (seriously I didn’t mean to. B Boy got a call from Wolfgang telling her that he found a ring in Grizzly Cup’s bag or whatever, what should he do? And I had B Boy say “say yes” – and then Wolfgang and Grizzly Cup were engaged LOL).
I can’t decide if this is cute or weird.
They had a wedding there at the house but Wolfgang went full crazy werewolf and ate the wedding arch and scared off the guests. He finally got it under control and they were married (didn’t move him in tho.)
The wedding!
They had a little girl, HeyWhattheHell. She was a cut kid with blue space buns. Her life goal was athletics. She did great in school and graduated early, then went straight into athletics. (Did she go to the college? I can’t remember now.) After maxing out of the athletic career, she is now working as a conservationist.
One night Grizzly Cup accidentally set the oven on fire (How? she’s maxed out of both cooking skills, so I dunno), and 2 firefighters showed up. HeyWhattheHell fell in love with one firefighter with an epic mustache. But he wasn’t very nice. She worked and worked at that relationship and eventually he agreed to a science baby.
The science baby is a little girl named Suzie Toot. She is an alien baby. Because why not.
Suzie Toot has been raised by an army of nannies.
They also adopted a dog named Cooper. So right now the house consists of B Boy (elder, Paranormal Investigator, amazing at everything she does), her half-niece Grizzly Cup (adult, mixologist, amazing at everything she does), Grizzly Cup’s daughter HeyWhattheHell (buff as hell conservationist with now-pink hair), and HeyWhattheHell’s science baby Suzie Toot (alien toddler).
Also weird glitchy sort of thing? Wolfgang the werewolf was obviously married to Grizzly Cup and also became very good friends with B Boy. But out of the blue one day he visited (he had a key) and all of his relationships with everyone was gone? He was still married to Grizzly Cup but like their relationship was back to 0. They all had to reintroduce themselves to him. I built his relationship with Grizzly Cup back up, only for the next time he came over, it was reset to 0 again. So today, they got divorced. I’m not playing those head games, Wolfgang!
Wolfgang bitching to B Boy on the couch while Grizzly Cup rethinks her life choices.
Another glitch is that none of them can ask Father Winter for presents anymore. Annoying.
Also B Boy has been abducted by aliens at least 3 times.
(and HeyWhattheHell got killed by a meteor once, but I had just saved so I shut down and restarted!)
4/23/25:
I’m back already with more!
Suzie Toot aged up and LOOK HOW CUTE SHE IS she looks like a little Gelfling.
But I’m back to mostly say that Grizzly Cup died not once, but TWICE since yesterday. Since she completed her Potion Master aspiration, I moved her to a fame aspiration. I got her the drone so she could stream, and set up dancing on a livestream. Well she died of HYSTERIA because she was too happy LOL.
B Boy begged for her life but it didn’t work. So I did the same thing I did when B Boy died and bought her the ambrosia out of the gallery and she was back to life before the Grim Reaper even had a chance to leave.
(Also B Boy flirted hard with the Grim Reaper and they were just on the verge of their first kiss before he disappeared!)
So when Grizzly Cup came back she wasn’t in her mixologist career anymore, so I figured since she was now trying to be famous, I moved her to the actor career.
So the next Sim day I had her up and streaming again and set her up dancing and guess what, she died AGAIN.
This time I was ready though – Grizzly Cup had a death flower in her inventory, so I’d moved it over to B Boy, and she successfully gave Grim the death flower and saved Grizzly Cup.
Meanwhile, HeyWhatheHell got stuck peeing on the toilet for about 10 hours of sim time. I left her to see how long she’d stay there and finally had to move her out so somebody else could use the bathroom.