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LOOK AT THEM!!!!!! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!!!!! THEY’RE SO CUTE- I LOVE THIS! NOW I JUST HAVE TO ROOT HIM ON! GO ENRIQUE, GO! Hehe. Can you tell I don’t often enter BCs, so I’m pretty dang excited? Because I don’t often enter BCs and I’m pretty dang excited! ♥

Contestant #5:  Enrique Román Díaz By @lilyshadowwriter

#Enrique Román Díaz #Paradise BC #Sims 3 #TS3 #My sims in other games #(ノ^∇^) #Haven't been around much I know >.< #Just been playing other games and hit a wall with writing #But hopefully I'll come around and be more active again soon ♥

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Enrique Román Díaz for @legendofsim​’s Paradise BC

IT WAS MUCH MORE CHALLENGING THAN I ANTICIPATED TO MAKE A SIM WITHOUT USING ANY CC SLIDERS, BUT HERE WE ARE! I LOVE HIM. Now, without further ado because I’m already one of the last to submit their sim (eep!), here’s more about Enrique:

Age: 25 Traits: Loves To Swim, Heavy Sleeper, Nurturing, Loves the Heat, Sailor

Favorites: Green, Ceviche, and Island Music

Personality: Responsible, a bit serious at first glance, but quick to warm and friendly. Loves to laugh and lives in the moment. Optimistic, but somewhat wary. You never know what life may next have in store for you.

Bio: Enrique was born to parents who loved one another with a love that most only hear about in fairy tales. No matter what the family endured—including a hurricane that wiped out their home and had them moving from the Dominican Republic to Paradise Isles when he was only 7 years old—his parents’ love and optimistic outlook on life carried them forward to brighter days.

It seemed that nothing could shake them, until one stifling summer afternoon when Enrique was 15 years old and his father collapsed, never waking again. A fatal heart attack that no one saw coming, especially not his mother, whose plans for the future were inextricably woven with the man she loved more than life itself. Shattered, his mother withdrew deeply into a darkness she could not rouse herself from, and it fell to Enrique, the eldest sibling to two younger siblings, to look after them all.

Enrique had quite a reputation in high school for being utterly lazy, constantly sleeping through classes and scraping C’s by the skin of his teeth, but in truth he was always tired because he picked up a cleaning job at the local luxury resort, wiping sticky cocktail spills off tables until well into the night to make enough for the family to get by.

After graduating, he put all his focus into supporting them, even picking up a second job lifeguarding to make ends meet. Slowly though, in little steps and with lots of encouragement, Enrique’s mother gradually improved, to the point where she was able to work again, and Enrique was able to take more time to focus on himself and what he wants out of life.

Perhaps needless to say, he isn’t sure. Learning to be a bit selfish has been harder than he anticipated, and though he’s spent many hours on the beach or sailing on his own at sea, all this time for introspection hasn’t brought him any closer to an answer. He likes lifeguarding well enough, but despite knowing he doesn’t want to do this for the rest of his life, he’s unsure what he’d rather pursue. 

As for romance, Enrique has dated some, but no one has ever stuck. Part of him feels like maybe he’s spoiled and he’s looking for a love like the love his parents had for each other. Another part of him feels, however, that maybe he’s afraid.... 

He’s seen firsthand what love can do to a person when it’s lost, but maybe...with the right person...he could take the risk.

I really hope you like him and thank you so much for letting me participate and for being so patient!!!! I’m excited to see where Kennedy’s story will go and how all these awesome contestants will cross her future path :)

#Enrique Román Díaz #Paradise BC #legendofsim #Sims 3 #TS3

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Temporary Hiatus

By titling this post as such, I am WILLING IT INTO EXISTENCE.

No, really though, lol, bit of a hiatus here because I’ll be out of town for the first two weeks of June, so I won’t be posting or chatting much during that time. I may scroll through Tumblr on my phone here and there to try and stay updated, but will probably fall behind due to limited time. No worries! I’ll catch up, and hopefully start posting again, when I return ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

♥ LilyShadowWriter

#Lily Talks

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You know, these WIP roses are pretty interesting actually. I go through a stupid high number of drafts before I get to the finished product, and I recently more or less finalized the above scene.

Now, the original draft, of course, is what you see above. But the final?

Gemma peered into the aisle again, only to find that Ashton had vanished. She blinked, nonplussed, but then found him by the cash register, paying for his books. Even if the shop had been crowded, she’d have spotted him, his impeccable posture setting him apart. Broad shoulders back, spine straight and tall, his head level—always looking ahead. She remembered coaxing those rigid lines to soften, remembered his tentative touch and inquiring eyes: Is this okay? He’d treated her like someone he cared about, and that had scared her more than she’d ever wanted to admit.

Of all the trysts she’d ever had, she didn’t think she’d ever slept with anyone who had any real crush on her—only an attraction and a mutual interest in hooking up. She wondered, sometimes, if Ashton had been an exception. If maybe he’d liked her, or at least thought that he did. He’d eyed her for weeks before she spoke to him. Picked him up and after, she never spoke to him again. Too much, she’d thought then. Not enough, she’d realized later. And now? Was there still a whisper of a chance? A shred of possibility worth the omnipresent risk, if only she’d—

“Thank you! Have a nice day!” the cashier cheerfully chirped.

“Oh. Thank you. You as well,” Ashton replied. He picked up his bag and walked out the door, leaving as swiftly as he’d arrived.

Well.

So much for that.

INTERESTING, RIGHT? ….okay, maybe only to me, lol. I always start out with the dialogue, I think. The rest gets filled in later. Anyway, this is why my chapters go from an estimated 8-10k to a whopping 15-20k! FUNNNNNNNNN. *perishes*

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Generation 5 Special: Augustus & Gemma V*

Gemma peered into the aisle again, only to see that Ashton had vanished. She blinked, nonplussed, but then found him by the cash register, paying for his books.

“Thank you! Have a nice day!” the cashier stated cheerfully.

“Oh. Thank you—to you as well,” Ashton replied. He took his bag, and then walked out the door, leaving as swiftly as he’d arrived.

Well....

So much for that.

#Lily Talks #Different Winters #BonusCharacterFacts #Idk just randomness #Kinda of on a semi-hiatus as I write #Social media is ULTRA distracting for me #Blehhhh #But here I am anyway sometimes lol #Oh welllll #At least writing progress is happening again ♥

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Generation 5 Special: Augustus and Gemma V*

“IF you’re right—and I’m not saying you are—but IF you’re right and I never...never completely got over him, then...wouldn’t that be a reason to talk to him? To, I don’t know, finally work that out and...move on?”

#n-am-pleaca #😱 #Hehe #Thank you so much for asking! #Different Winters #BonusCharacterFacts #Lily Talks #*All lines subject to change since content is in drafting stages

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Generation 5 Special: Augustus and Gemma V*

“Relájate,” he murmured. Relax. Augustus opened his eyes, and Isaac tilted his head, an amused smile curving his lips. “It’s only me.”

#nocturnalazure #Only Isaac #Only.... #dhfjkskds #Technically more than one sentence but it is one line! lol #Thank you for asking! #Different Winters #BonusCharacterFacts #Lily Talks #*All lines subject to change since content is in drafting stages

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🌹🌹🌹 I hope this helps with the writers block.

Generation 5 Special: Augustus and Gemma V*

“I have three other roommates, but I haven’t met them yet.”

“Really?” Augustus asked in surprise. “They didn’t greet you when you moved in?”

Isaac shook his head. “I think I might have heard one of them come home in the middle of the night, but I never saw them and by the morning, they were gone.”

“Ghost roommates,” Augustus solemnly proclaimed.

The brunet looked at him as if bemused, and then a playful smirk began to curve the corner of his lips. “There’s dirty dishes in the sink, but you didn’t leave them there.”

Augustus bit his lower lip, barely managing to suppress a smile of his own. “The food’s gone, but you didn’t eat it.”

“An alarm clock sounds, but no one wakes. No one ever wakes.”

A laugh bubbled up in the raven-haired young man’s throat, but he kept it at bay as he added, “You think you see someone sitting on the couch. You say ‘good morning’ to a stack of dirty laundry. There’s a single sneaker sitting in the hall.”

Isaac pressed his knuckles against his mouth. “Where’s the other?”

“In your room. Sitting on your laptop. A hamster pops out of it.”

“A hamster?”

Augustus met his eyes. “It isn’t yours.”

Isaac dissolved, doubling over in a fit of riotous laughter that had several curious students glancing their way in alarm. Augustus barely noticed, caught up only in his own laughter, and the ache in his cheeks.

#This scene is actually in danger of getting deleted #bc it's silly and doesn't really push the plot forward #But since you're always mentioning Gus' joy around Isaac #I figured you might appreciate this :) #So I included it here #Line limits be damned lol #Thank you for asking ♥ #dandylion240 #Different Winters #BonusCharacterFacts #Lily Talks #*All lines subject to change since content is in drafting stages

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Generation 5 Special: Augustus and Gemma V*

Augustus smiled, and Patrick rushed up to hug him, throwing his arms around him and burying his face in his shoulder. “I m-missed you so much.”

“Yes, anyway, don’t mind me! I will simply be upstairs in my room, making no noise and pretending I do not exist!” Gemma cheerily called out.

#serenasims #Being a third-wheel is never fun! lol #Thank you for asking! #Different Winters #BonusCharacterFacts #Lily Talks #*All lines subject to change since content is in drafting stages

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Generation 5 Special: Augustus & Gemma V*

Gemma peered into the aisle again, only to see that Ashton had vanished. She blinked, nonplussed, but then found him by the cash register, paying for his books.

“Thank you! Have a nice day!” the cashier stated cheerfully.

“Oh. Thank you—to you as well,” Ashton replied. He took his bag, and then walked out the door, leaving as swiftly as he’d arrived.

Well....

So much for that.

#thesimperiuscurse #STOP HIDING FROM HIM GEMMA #She can talk guys into bed #But not out to lunch #RIP #Few extra lines here #Oh well lol #Different Winters #BonusCharacterFacts #Lily Talks #*All lines subject to change since content is in drafting stages

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Generation 5 Special: Augustus and Gemma V*

“It’s more that...I feel...a lot...toward you, but I don’t know if what I’m feeling is love.”

#simmreaper #ONLY ONE LINE IS SO TRICKY #WHERE IS THE CONTEXT #WHERE #Although...I feel like you can tell who's speaking.... #Different Winters #BonusCharacterFacts #Lily Talks #*All lines subject to change since content is in drafting stages

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Generation 5 Special: Augustus & Gemma V*

“You’re crying,” Isaac noted softly.

“Oh.”

“Don’t,” he continued, offering a small, wane smile. “I’m really not worth the tears.”

#This doesn't help you stay away from their story does it? #hfdsjfhjdksfsk YOU'LL GET THERE SOON XD #Also this is 4 lines #But whatever OH is a very short sentence #Even if it is carrying so much weight #lazysunjade #Different Winters #BonusCharacterFacts #Lily Talks #*All lines subject to change since content is in drafting stages

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for every "🌹" received in my inbox i'll post one random sentence of a random WIP i'm currently writing

#I don't have nearly as much written as I'd hoped by now #But this still seemed like fun maybe? #I could do a few #Maybe it'll help this stupid block I've run into again *sigh* #Writing is so difficult

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Phew, okay! Now that was the end of the “So, What Are We Now?” flashback story. I have also finally updated the pictures on WordPress to include the touched-up ones here, so both places are the same!

If you’re new though, you may be really confused about the fact that the story ended here and on such a heartbreaking note! No worries, the story isn’t actually over. It was merely a flashback in an already ongoing side-story that follows both Augustus and Gemma years later in college.

These are the parts so far, in the order that they’ve been posted:

Augustus & Gemma I - (Gus meets Patrick here...whoops)

Augustus & Gemma II - (Gus and Isaac bump into each other here)

Augustus & Gemma III - (Gus finds out what happened with Isaac all those years ago)

So, What Are We Now? (Pt.1) and (Pt.2) - (The flashback you just read)

Augustus & Gemma IV (Pt.1) and (Pt.2)

I am currently writing Augustus & Gemma V, where we will see much more of their story in the present. In the meantime, if you’d like to be caught up you can read the chapters on my WordPress blog (although A&G IV is here on Tumblr too). Otherwise, I may try to post a recap here so you’ll all be caught up regardless ❤️

Thank you for your interest in Different Winters! It truly means a lot!

The benefit of a repost from another platform is that it’s only been a couple days and everything is complete, so that means Pt. 2 is already all queued up to post! As always though, you can also find this chapter HERE in full on WordPress, though I haven’t yet updated those posts with the newer, touched-up photos I’ve been using here…not sure if I can/will. We’ll see! Anyway….

If you’d prefer not to see these posts, they will be tagged as So What Are We Now? (Pt.2), so you can add that tag to your block list. They will begin posting tomorrow!

Trigger/Content Warnings for this part only include some strong language I believe…didn’t catch anything else, but let me know if you feel otherwise and I’ll change this accordingly.

Once again whether you’re reading this for the first time or revisiting, I hope you’ll enjoy the culmination to this flashback story.

Thank you for being here and for supporting Different Winters! ♥

#I hope this isn't too confusing #If so feel free to ask questions! #ALSO FORGIVE HOW MY SIMS LOOK IN THE EARLY CHAPTERS #I did not switch to my current style until So What Are We Now? 😭 #Also don't mind Isaac's demeanor in II and III too much #Lots of false bravado there #He's actually so nervous #He starts letting it fall a bit in IV...and will continue to do so #Also there's an almost FIVE year gap b4 they meet again #A lot has changed x_x #Anyway thank you again for following! ♥ #Different Winters #DITFT Legacy #Simnovel #SIms 3 Stories #Sims 3 Legacies #Sims 3 #TS3

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Hello! I've been your follower for a long time, but I usually just watch screenshots. I do not know English and it is difficult to read for me... But last night I read a few episodes with the help of a translator. Then I followed the links - and read for several hours in a row! I couldn't tear myself away! Your stories are so touching! Sometimes I laughed, sometimes even cried...You are an amazing storyteller! I wish you that inspiration and imagination are always with you! Thank you for sharing your novels on Tumblr :)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! It means a lot to me that even though English is difficult for you, you still took the time to use a translator to help you read my stories. Wow! I have a lot to learn, but I’m really happy that you love them and that you think I’m an amazing storyteller! You’re really kind! 💕

Thank YOU for reading my stories! I’ll definitely continue sharing them!

#Anonymous #YOU'RE AMAZING! #THANK YOU AGAIN! #♥ #Lily Talks

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So, what are now?

What were we, ever?

#/End Scene #/End Queue #/End Story #(╯︵╰) #Augustus Winters #Gemma Winters #Different Winters #DITFT Legacy #Simnovel #Sims 3 Stories #Sims 3 Legacies #Sims 3 #TS3 #So What Are We Now? (Pt.2) #I'D SAY HOPE YOU ENJOYED BUT THIS FLASHBACK HAS A SAD ENDING #And this was literally all Augustus knew up until recently #When they bumped into one another again years later at college #Perhaps I'll make a bit of a summary post on that #Maybe? #Is it needed? #Probably...those chapters were posted a LONG time ago #And then everyone will be all caught up for Part V o___o #ANYWAY #/END RAMBLING

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Gemma’s arms wrapped around him and Augustus fell into them as he dissolved into loud, broken sobs that scared even himself. He’d never even known he was capable of making such wretched sounds. He’d never felt so utterly destroyed…and he felt so disgustingly pathetic for it.

Pathetic.

Not because it was unreasonable for a person to be upset by such bitter disappointment, but because of the awareness of a truth powerful enough to drag his very conceptualization of reality to its knees and obliterate it:

For as much as Augustus had treasured even the sheer existence of the golden-eyed brunet, Isaac had clearly never felt the same about him.

#Yes he did yes he DID gahhhhhhh! #.·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·. #Gemma Winters #Augustus Winters #Different Winters #DITFT Legacy #Simnovel #Sims 3 Stories #Sims 3 Legacies #Sims 3 #TS3 #So What Are We Now? (Pt.2)

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Augustus told himself these things, but he couldn’t convince himself of even a word. 

He couldn’t convince himself because Augustus had never met anyone like Isaac. He’d never met anyone who he got along with so well; who could make his heart bound the way Isaac did; who made his stomach feel so fluttery; who made him laugh until his sides hurt; who he trusted so completely; who he…who he….

#Who he.... #ಡ ﹏ ಡ #Augustus Winters #Different Winters #DITFT Legacy #Simnovel #Sims 3 Stories #Sims 3 Legacies #Sims 3 #TS3 #So What Are We Now? (Pt.2)