Hey there! First let me start off by saying I love your simblr I’ve followed you for a while now probably close to when sims 4 first came out. I’ve always wanted to make my own simblr but I suffer a lot from social anxiety so it has always stopped me. I was wondering if you had any advice that may be of some help to me?

Wow, thank you so much! That’s a long time to be following me, I appreciate that so much ^_^

I think the best bits of advice I could give you would just be to remember that #1 – you’re always gonna be anonymous, depending on how much of your personal life you want to share. If you don’t want to go into your life, your name, what you look like etc then no one is going to know who you really are so you don’t need to worry about that and I think it makes things a lot less intense. #2 – Simblr is about having fun, doing what you love and sharing that with other people and that’s why we’re all here so remember that!

Another tip I would give is to turn off anon messaging. Obviously it can be a great help to people (like you, who wanted to stay anon) but it can also be a hindrance and cause anxiety when you get rude/hateful anons, which you don’t want if you’re already struggling with anxiety. Turning off anon gets rid of 99% of people who want try to cause problems with you so I highly suggest that.

And lastly, drama. In this community it can be fairly easy to get involved in drama, but it’s also very easy to avoid it and stay out of it. If you don’t want to see any of it then keep a close-eye on who you follow and unfollow people who you see getting involved in or starting drama. You can also make use of tumblr addons to block certain keywords/tags to keep it hidden from your dash if you still want to follow those people. If you do get involved in drama then don’t panic! Drama in this community comes and goes like the wind – to begin with it’ll be crazy and seem like it’ll never stop but in 2 or 3 days it’s completely died down and people have moved onto something else.

Oh and one more thing! I know you suffer from social anxiety and I know how hard it can be but try to put yourself out there as best you can – message one or two (or as many as you want!) of your favourite simblrs off anon and just say hey, I really love your simblr and wanted you to know and wondered if we could be friends. I can guarantee the vast majority of people would love to be friends and chat with you! aka me

Anyway, I hope that helped and if you have any other questions or just want to chat please feel free to message me anytime 🙂

I think you’re right. Your Ex is probably just lonely and thats why he’s coming back to talk to you. Don’t give in unless thats what you want.

I wish I could say it’s what I want because it would make things a lot easier and less scary (he’s the only person I’ve ever been with) but it’s just not. After spending over 6 years together the love I have for him will never go away but it’s not the kind of love that makes me want to be with him. I’m not in love with him anymore and I can’t change that. I feel like us speaking again would also be a step backwards and I don’t want to go down that path. 

theplumboblife
reblogged your post and added:

The one @jenba made for her Blythe Harbour town is…

Yes! I was looking at that earlier and thought it would be perfect but it hasn’t been released on the gallery yet. I’ll be keeping a close eye out for that one. Thanks for letting me know 🙂

I’m just wondering if your past relationship was a long distance one? and it sounds like your ex isnt happy that you’re okay without him

It started out long distance for the first 2 and a bit years, then he moved over here to live with me. 

You could definitely be right about that. I just know there’s no good that could come from us resuming contact. He texted me sometime before Christmas asking if I wanted to go out and I told him that I didn’t think it was a good idea and we should remain no-contact. I’m glad he kept to that so far but it definitely seems like my ex and our friend have been talking about it for this to randomly crop up.

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personal rant below

If you’ve been following me for a while you probably know I broke up with my bf of over 6 years about a year ago now. We have a mutual friend who I’ve started to speaking to a lot more recently as we kind of drifted apart some time ago and hadn’t really talked for a few years.

Anyway, today he randomly asked me if I’d consider being friends with my ex and I said no because it would be too difficult and awkward. He said he wants us to talk again and that we were good together, even if it isn’t a love-relationship anymore and that I “can’t go through life removing someone I once held so dear and special” and that we should at least be friends. I told him I wouldn’t say never but it’s too soon for me right now.

I’m going to assume he’s been speaking to my ex and this is where this has come from because otherwise it’s just totally out of the blue. That makes me really uncomfortable and so does the fact that he said I shouldn’t remove someone from my life that I once loved. Because first of all, it’s nothing to do with him. Second of all, he clearly doesn’t understand how fucking difficult it would be to stay friends with someone you’ve been in relationship with for over 6 years and practically lived the whole beginning of your adult life with. It wouldn’t work. I’m not saying it’s impossible but I’m sure it’s not easy and I don’t want that in my life right now.

Well anyway, he didn’t say anything since I basically said I wasn’t interested, and that was a few hours ago. So I just sent him a random message, being kind of funny and normally he would say something funny back or make fun of me or ask some kind of question. In short, I’d normally get some kind of reaction. But all he’s replied with is “Ok”.

What the fuck? Am I just reading into this too much or is he like, pissed at me for not wanting to remain friends with my ex?? This is absurd and I’m just not going to talk to him until he talks to me because I won’t put up with childish bullshit like that. I would kind of get it if we were all really close and he missed that but guys, the 3 of us haven’t been close for literally years. The first 1 or 2 years of our relationship we were all really close and we’d speak to each other every day. But then we drifted and barely talked for the last few years so what the fuck?

elventinsimmer
answered to your photo “This is my first time using the arcade machine and I’m pretty sure…”

my tv did this one time in game i re load my game

cookie-crumble-sims
answered to your photo “This is my first time using the arcade machine and I’m pretty sure…”

That happens for me if I get too close too it or look at it from an odd angle, just move your camera around a bit and it should sow up. 🙂

engrampixels
answered to your photo “This is my first time using the arcade machine and I’m pretty sure…”

CC interfering with it? Sometimes the weirdest stuff will clash. Have you tried it vanilla?

Thanks for all of your replies guys. I’ve fixed it now – I had to delete the original machines and just replace. Also, @engrampixels, it wasn’t CC, still happened when I took my mods folder out. Weird and annoying bug but it’s sorted now.