My Muse is not happy with me.

Nope...she's not happy at all...12 pages into the fourth chapter of my Legacy, she has just gone on strike. So...I guess I have to either administer corporal punishment or just let her figure it out until she's ready to cooperate.

The Updated Chikamori Family Tree in LibreOffice Draw

Insofar as the Legacy Family Tree, I decided that I was going to turn around and make the family tree in LibreOffice Draw since it had the necessary tools for me to be able to make distinctions between family members with arrows leading to who was related to who.

Although as I'm going along with this Legacy, I'm going to have to make adjustments for family members coming into the family and this tree is going to grow on both sides of the family immensely. I've likened it to a bramble bush, since at some point, Yasunobu is going to get divorced from Mayumi...and he's going to remarry.

I'm enjoying making this since LibreOffice, unlike GIMP is user-friendly and I appear to have a handle on the program. GIMP on the other hand is like a mentally-disabled ADHD trying to write a scientific paper on Astrophysics. That's how hard it is to get a handle on.

Monkeying around with GIMP

GIMP is a great little program, but coming from Adobe...it's a fucking pain-in-the-ass. I hate that it's not intuitive like Adobe Photoshop Elements...it's also laborious to work one's way around in order to get the output that you want. Can't afford to re-up Photoshop again at this point so I have to work with what I have...and who knows maybe I might get better at this.

Maybe I'll be able to get back to actual photography sooner than later.

I Hate Family Tree Software

Trying to make a Sims family tree seems to be the most complicated and irritating thing possible to do in a Legacy. The Plumtree App continues to drive me insane because it doesn't separate both Founders so that you can individually put their parents in. Only one seems to get the ability to put their parents in while the other is orphaned. I wish it was possible to separate nodes for founders at least so you could put their family members (in short: parents) in. The only way to do this is by making a family tree yourself.

Trying to make one while working with software I don't understand is a task that makes me want to hurl this keyboard through the nearest window.

The Mares are Absolutely Correct...

I'm intrigued by this mod, however, I have yet to purchase Dragon Valley, as I had been holding out for the Dragon Valley Gold Edition, since it comes with the bonus "Black Dragon".

And just for your information Lost Pantheon. I am distressed that your mod didn't come with the ability to turn an entire town into a baked charnel house.

insert ~evil cackle~

In other posts, the Mares have always made me laugh with such intricate and cunning wordplay; an absolute delight.

This gem had me in stitches for darned near close to an hour. Well-played, Mares. Love it. "Unwanted bangings"...🤣

My JAG-Sims Are On The Way Back

Kimber: It just had to happen. The Pentagon carked up our separation pay.

Kimber: This has never happened before, how am I going to explain this to the rest of the gang.

Animal: Of course, it's not my XO's fault. She filed the forms properly. It was the Department of the Navy's payroll department that messed things up royally.

Meg: I don't have my pay...and I have to put up with HER? And I thought I was going to get Tosh all to myself.

Mac: Harm, if you even so much as blink in Little Miss Aviator Commander's direction, I'm going to geld you.

Harm: (looks at Commander Kimber "Jugs" Benton) She's sooooo pretty.

Sometimes I Hate this Game So Much (yeah, Sims 3)

Here's the third factory reset of the year coming up and that's par for the course for Sims 3. I hate this when this happens right as I'm getting into the meaty part of my legacy.

Looks like I have to get all my mods back in and I've figured out a way of making sure that my characters in "my family" look like they did. I'm going to set up a folder that has all the CC that I use on my family so that they don't ever end up looking out of place or sans proper skins and I'm labeling that as ChikamorifamilyCC.

I've got my NRAAS mods in and I'm going to go ahead and look through my mods folders and find all the cc for River and Haruo and make sure that they look the way they're supposed to. Then I'm going to go in and deal with Yasunobu and the rest of who is supposed to be "family" and those hairstyles are going to be exclusive to Haruo/River and the rest of the Chikamori family.

Might take a while to get her back to looking like this...but once that happens, I can go on with the Legacy.