Spring Into Summer & Fall Into Winter

Spring into Summer & Fall into Winter

A Sims 4 seasons challenge with very bad play on words. You get it? Spring, summer, fall & winter? Ahhh, never mind…

I am not aware of any challenges for seasons yet, so I decided to give it a try. The challenge is a 4 generations legacy challenge, so short but not short, if you get what I mean 😉

The challenge wishes to explore the expansion pack, because there is a lot of new stuff! It also forces you to create some new holidays you can spend with your loved ones.

If you decide to give this a go, please use the hashtag #springtowinter.

There are some basic rules for the challenge:

You can start off generation 1 with §50.000 by using the money cheat (type money 50000 in the command), but no more cheats after this.

Lifespan must be set to normal, and season length must be set to 14 days (the normal is 7, so remember changing this)

A sim may only use an anti-aging potion ONE TIME in their lifetime, this includes the Potion of Youth and milking the cow plant.

If you don’t own a pack that dictates a trait, aspiration, career or goal, replace it with something you think will fit.

You do NOT have to complete the goals within a season - the generation represents a season, so you play in their lifetime.

When a child becomes a teen, the next generation begins.

Have fun. Or else

💐 Generation 1 - Spring:

Traits: Romantic, loves the outdoors & vegetarian

Aspiration: Soulmate

Career: Gardener (Floral Designer-branch)

Spring has sprung, and the vegetables begins to sprout. As a romantic, you find this season to be the best. The flowers begin to bloom, bees are in the air, and the smell of rain. Ahh, you love it. The only thing missing, is someone to share it with.

Goals (You MUST complete all to move on to the next generation):

Declare your love for rain (interaction in the friendly-category)

Create a new holiday (in the calendar) named ‘Earth day’. It must take place in the spring. Traditions must be: Gardening, give flowers, and thankful spirit.

Create a new holiday (in the calendar) named ‘Egg-stravaganza’. It must take place in the spring. Traditions must be: Flower bunny, egg hunt, and baking.

Get a beebox and fill up the relationship bar with them

Get to level 10 in the flower arranging-skill

Complete all traditions in the Love Day-holiday

Complete all traditions in the Earth Day-holiday

Complete all traditions in the Egg-stravaganza-holiday

Complete the aspiration

☀️ Generation 2 - Summer:

Traits: Good, hot-headed (get it?) & perfectionist

Aspiration: The Curator

Career: Secret agent (Diamond agent-branch)

Summer has always been your favorite season, because it seems like everything is perfect. And, as a completionist, you have always been obsessed with perfect things, and always want to collect everything, while doing something good for the world.

Goals (You MUST complete all to move on to the next generation):

Declare your love for sunshine (interaction in the friendly-category)

Create a new holiday (in the calendar) named ‘Be Proud’. It must take place in the summer. Traditions must be: Drinking, decorate, party spirit and romantic spirit.

Create a new holiday (in the calendar) named ‘Summerfest’. It must take place in the summer. Traditions must be: Bar-B-Que, fire, water fun, and tell stories.

Create a new holiday (in the calendar) named ‘Day of the Dead’. It must take place in the summer. Traditions must be: Rembrance, grand meal, decorate, tell stories, and attend holiday ceremony.

The generation heir must, as a child, join the scouts (afterschool-activity), and collect all of the scout-badges

Get to level 10 in the herbalism-skill

Buy a money tree (Available in the rewards, and costs 5.000 points)

Complete all traditions in the Be Proud-holiday

Complete all traditions in the Summerfest-holiday

Complete all traditions in the Day of the Dead-holiday

Complete the aspiration

🍂 Generation 3 - Fall:

Traits: Genius, kleptomaniac & materialistic

Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy

Career: Criminal (Boss-branch)

The temperatures are dropping, along with most peoples mood. Except yours. You love the dark hours and colors. To you, your parents were good. Too good. You do not see the good in the world, and neither in people. You have always wanted to cause mayhem and chaos.

Goals (You MUST complete all to move on to the next generation):

Declare your love for wind (interaction in the friendly-category)

Create a new holiday (in the calendar) named ‘Mischief Monday’. It must take place in the fall. Traditions must be: Mischief spirit, streaking, fighting and give gifts

Create a new holiday (in the calendar) named ‘Spooky Day’. It must take place in the fall. Traditions must be: Spooky spirit, trick or treat, decorate, and wear costumes

Buy the weather machine and fully upgrade it

Woohoo in leaf pile

Befriend Patchy the Straw Man

Get to level 10 in the mischief-skill

Complete all traditions in the Harvest Day-holiday

Complete all traditions in the Mischief Monday-holiday

Complete all traditions in the Spooky Day-holiday

Complete the aspiration

⛄ Generation 4 - Winter:

Traits: Cheerful, foodie and family-oriented.

Aspiration: Super parent

Career: Social media-career (Internet Personality-branch)

Snow is falling, and as you look out the window you cannot help but wanting to share it with other people (on social media even). Winterfest has always been your favorite. The happy mood, the food, and spending time with the family makes you as happy as you can get. You know that your parents has not been the greatest of people, so you decide that you want to be that. The best parent in world even.

Goals (You MUST complete all to move on to the next generation):

Declare your love for snow (interaction in the friendly-category)

Create a new holiday (in the calendar) named ‘A Wintery Welcome’. It must take place in the winter. Traditions must be: Festive lighting, festive spirits, polar bear plunge, and fasting.

Build 5 different snowpals (it is random, but there is 15 available, so it should be possible)

Have only 1 child - and that must be with father winter

Complete all traditions in the Winterfest-holiday

Complete all traditions in the New Year’s eve-holiday

Complete all traditions in the A Wintery Welcome-holiday

Complete the aspiration

If you have any suggestions or changes, please let me know!

How to Plot a Complex Novel in One Day

Now first, I have to say, that the plot you’re able to come up with in one day is not going to be without its flaws, but coming up with it all at once, the entire story unfolds right in front of you and makes you want to keep going with it. So, where to begin?

What is your premise and basic plot? Pick your plot. I recommend just pulling one from this list. No plots are “original” so making yours interesting and complicated will easily distract from that fact, that and interesting characters. Characters will be something for you to work on another day, because this is plotting day. You’ll want the main plot to be fairly straight forward, because a confusing main plot will doom you if you want subplots.

Decide who the characters will be. They don’t have to have names at this point. You don’t even need to know who they are other than why they have to be in the story. The more characters there are the more complicated the plot will be. If you intend to have more than one subplot, then you’ll want more characters. Multiple interconnected subplots will give the illusion that the story is very complicated and will give the reader a lot of different things to look at at all times. It also gives you the chance to develop many side characters. The plot I worked out yesterday had 13 characters, all were necessary. Decide their “roles” don’t bother with much else. This seems shallow, but this is plot. Plot is shallow.

Now, decide what drives each character. Why specifically are they in this story? You can make this up. You don’t even know these characters yet. Just so long as everyone has their own motivations, you’re in the clear.

What aren’t these characters giving away right off the bat? Give them a secret! It doesn’t have to be something that they are actively lying about or trying to hide, just find something that perhaps ties them into the plot or subplot. This is a moment to dig into subplot. This does not need to be at all connected to their drive to be present in the story. Decide who is in love with who, what did this person do in the 70’s that’s coming back to bite them today, and what continues to haunt what-his-face to this very day. This is where you start to see the characters take shape. Don’t worry much about who they are or what they look like, just focus on what they’re doing to the story.

What is going to change these characters? Now this will take some thinking. Everyone wants at least a few of the characters to come out changed by the end of the story, so think, how will they be different as a result of the plot/subplot? It might not be plot that changes them, but if you have a lot of characters, a few changes that are worked into the bones of the plot might help you.

Now list out the major events of the novel with subplot in chronological order. This will be your timeline. Especially list the historical things that you want to exist in backstory. List everything you can think of. Think about where the story is going. At this point, you likely haven’t focused too much on the main plot, yeah, it’s there, but now really focus on the rising actions, how this main plot builds its conflict, then the climactic moment. Make sure you get all of that in there. This might take a few hours.

Decide where to start writing. This part will take a LOT of thinking. It’s hard! But now that you’ve got the timeline, pick an interesting point to begin at. Something with action. Something relevant. Preferably not at the beginning of your timeline - you want to have huge reveals later on where these important things that happened prior are exposed. This is the point where you think about what information should come out when. This will be a revision of your last list, except instead of being chronological, it exists to build tension.

Once you’ve gotten the second list done, you’ve got a plot. Does it need work? Probably. But with that said, at this point you probably have no idea who half your characters are. Save that for tomorrow, that too will be a lot of work.

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One thing I dislike about the atla fandom is how they portray Suki. Like??? She’s only known for teaching Sokka to chug that respect women juice but that’s all she’s known for?? Teaching a boy to be a decent person and that’s just?????? Not it????? She’s the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors even though she’s a teenager. She’s skilled at martial arts and acrobatics which is shown throughout the series. She is fiercely loyal as she sacrificed her freedom to help save Appa so he could go save the Gaang most likely knowing she wasn’t going to win against Azula (along with Mai and Ty Lee but I remember them running off to go after the other warriors). She’s also a well written “strong female” character with her acknowledging that she can be a girl but she can also be a warrior and that’s okay (“I am a warrior, but I’m a girl too”). She also respects Sokka’s decision when he doesn’t kiss her back and apologizes because he doesn’t want him to feel guilty or to hurt him. Without her, Zuko, Hakoda, and Sokka could most likely not break out of the prison without her getting the warden. Finally, without her, Toph and Sokka would most likely be dead which would idk suck.

Suki is truly an amazing person and I’m so sick of everyone reducing her to “Sokka’s boyfriend” or “This is my boyfriend Sokka and Sokka’s boyfriend Zuko” or even worse excluding her from the Gaang. She is just as strong as the rest of the Gaang and just because she is a side character or a non-bender does not make her less important or allow you guys to reduce her to teaching a man not to be sexist because she is way more than and people don’t seem to know that.

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