i remember when i said i would never open this app again

and now i'm over here making my fic versions of pjo characters.

magical

um, i've only made one sim and it took me three days! i hope you're proud with how i spent my time. i do not know how or why this took me three days, when this was one sim and i need to make Tristan and also shel's entire family, but who cares?

this is piper, and we start off quite basic

then i went down a rabbit hole from there, trying to make outfits to represent various points of her character arc, which is probably why this took me so long because the following outfit took an entire day to make. i'm not gonna explain the arc because selene, you know what it is and if someone else reads this

...why? like, what possessed you to come here? don't get me wrong, i love you and you should make yourself known via comment or dm or something but i genuinely want to know why you're here

anyway, here she is

now you may be thinking, gabby why did this shitty outfit take you so long?

i do not know, but i did spend three hours looking for those cheese slides she's wearing because i could not find them and i simply needed them to be used here.

also it took forever to find a top that wasn't cropped because sims just doesn't like more conservative shirts and i always download crop tops, so that took a while.

also, this is an accurate description of how 99.9% of my class (including myself before people started bothering me) would stroll up to school, including the cheese slides. i want them.

then, we have the only outfit i actually wrote in the fic in detail which took me, like five minutes to create here because i found the top i needed in ten seconds

ignore the fact that she looks high, i took five different screenshots and this was the best one because THE SIMS NEVER STOP MOVING. EVER. STAY STILL OMFG

anyway, from this moment on, i can genuinely say that i've never had this much fun making a sim because of how much detail i tried to put in every outfit.

usually creating these fuckers is a stressful experience, but i was having the time of my life here and it's probably because with this outfit i decided i would actually start playing with these sims that i create

is that scary? yes, because 99% of everything here is CC that i downloaded, including the fucking skin tone and lip shape. every hairstyle i used was downloaded apart from EA because i am a part of the piper has bangs cult and i needed her to always have bangs

but then it started taking a lot longer to make outfits because of the way CC works, for example, here the hair ties that she's wearing were originally white, but i changed the color and it took away the nails that i chose for piper, which i was really sad about because her entire arc is built on her really loving doing her hair and nails and i had these super cute designs, it looked like those magnetic dip pigments and i was so happy with how it turned out, but i hated the white scrunchies more.

but i got over it because the next outfit, which is supposed to be the end of her arc was so fun

this outfit marks the beginning of my obsession with the butterfly pants

also, ignore the bandana. it looks 10x worse without it. i spent an hour taking it on and off trying to figure out if i should go for the cuter outfit as a whole or the cuter hair.

i chose cuter hair, it looked so bad.

also, trying to not have piper wear the same earrings was so hard because the earring selection was so small and i never look at earring CC, and now i am going to go down that rabbit hole.

anyway, i put my adoration of y2k fashion into this and the rest of the fits

and this is the first time i really looked at accessories, i usually don't think too much about it because people don't notice, but i spent so long getting the right nails, i zoomed into the shoes (you can't see it but the sides have floral decals) and made sure it matched, i went through 10 different bracelets and an embarrassing number of swatches. i don't think this is healthy, but it was a holy experience. this is the correct way to play sims.

i had one extra outfit in the everyday category, and i knew that at some point in the new greece fic (this is for new greece btw) they would go back to camp, because... no shit, so i made a makeshift chb outfit

we will pretend that the shirt is an exact copy of the chb shirt. actually, i am forcing you. that is now the chb shirt.

the bandana actually isn;t ugly here and this fit took me 10 seconds it was just a tee and shorts

you know what took me so long? THE NAILS and it took me way to long to find the ones i liked.

also, i think this is one of the only outfits where you see all her scars and i felt so smart for that, like even though her arc is complete she's still the most comfortable at camp, and i'm literally so smart with my costume design.

then, because the sims only allows me 5 fits per category, we get to go to formal now

i was not going to give her a dress

then i saw this and i didn't have a choice, i'm sorry

it's also so important to me that you know the eyeshadow is called the macaw set. because i saw it and it made me laugh at 1 am.

anyway, i justified this dress by saying that it's not necessarily revealing in anyway, aside from the slit, and she'd be matching with shel. and also it's just fucking pretty like those gloves??? they only work with that dress and i saw them and i put them on just to see because in the preview it looked hideous and i was so wrong for that.

then we have a more piper-ish formal outfit

she'd also be matching with shel here, i also had no fun with this fit so there will not be commentary

anyway, now we have her workout fits

we start off with piper in her gym princess era mainly because i saw this set and decided it out be sinful to not show it off immediately

also because i think it would be the norm in the aphrodite cabin to show up in the cutest activewear and i refuse to allow piper to be the exception to the rule.

then you have this thing, that had me hysterical for no reason:

gabby, why was this so funny to you?

i thought omg we could have one where she get's all dressed up and then one where she just woke up and has no idea wtf is going on isn't that hilarious???

i was laughing about it for way too long, and my favorite part was that i made piper look so fucking pretty that it looks like she just has a full face of makeup on at all times.

anyway, for emphasis of this point, i had her sleep outfit be this

i do not know why i was dying from this, but it's staying now

anyway, now we go back to the outfits that i was having a field day with, except this time it's in the party category

at this point i don't even know how much of this is piper and how much is just me going crazy, but you know what? that's okay because i fucking adore this outfit and i spent so long on it

i love the blue on blue and the jeans are so 2000s, i actually have a picture of my mom in something similar, which was the inspo

guess how long the makeup took? 3 hours.

anyway, that was my favorite out of every thing i made

then we have this one

the butterfly jeans make a comeback, and i'm not even mad because i love them

and then we have me looking forward to what i think will be a pride month thing at chb, but i'm not sure yet, so i just made the fit anyway

cute bisexual crochet, nothing special

then i was like

well this is for party so what if i have an absurd party outfit that i would just delete because it's supposed to be piper and it would be so ooc

well

um

OKOK HEAR ME OUT

I LOVE IT AND ITS SO CUTE AND IT LOOKS SO GOOD ON HER

LISTEN IT'S FINE

IT'S JUST FOR ME OK FOR ME

AND LOOK, EVEN SIM PIPER IS FEELING HERSELF, LOOK AT HER

moving on

i wanted an all butterfly outfit because these jeans have me in a chokehold

it's cute and simple and i like it and i would wear this

then we have the best outfit of them all

does the bear match at all? no

however, counterpoint, it is a bear

you can't refute that, i'm sorry

oh shit, i just realized i forgot to give her earrings but i'm not about to go back into that rabbithole

oh well

i still need to make tristan (look up tristan mclean on the gallery and not change anything about him because he's barely in this fic other than me spreading my anti-tristan propaganda)

but more importantly we have to make shel's family, so that's 4 sims and a dog (his name is oreo and he is the most important character along with mrs. o'leary and the cocoa puffs, he's a black and white malshi and shel calls him her "fuck cancer dog" because her parents said she could get a dog if she survived cancer, and then didn't get her a dog until her 17th bday because she made multiple presentations and wrote an essay and had a formal debate with them about it)

so um, stay tuned for that

ok bye

love y'all