Welcome!

Welcome to Reflections, a blog that tells the stories and struggles of humankind through The Sims 3 (and sometimes 2).

If you’re new to Reflections and would like to read a certain challenge or story from the beginning, you can browse through specific posts using the Categories section in the sidebar. The Chapters page also contains complete archives of every post, including challenges, custom content downloads and miscellaneous notes.

If you’re ever confused about who is related to whom in a challenge or story, please visit the Family Trees page.

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Very Bad News…

I know everyone was waiting on new updates during the summer and never got them. I’m so, so sorry about that. ): My uncle ended up keeping my laptop all summer and it never got fixed.

My parents bought me a new laptop just recently that plays The Sims 3 amazingly well (though I haven’t tried installing any expansions or stuff packs, yet) but I lost everything I had for all my other challenges I was blogging and playing about. Unfortunately, that means I’ll have to discontinue this blog, as sad as it makes me.

HOWEVER; I will not be gone for good! I’ll be making a brand new, fresh blog where I’ll play new challenges for you guys. I like playing challenges and blogging about them and I think a completely fresh start is a good way to start up that again. I will NOT be using any mods or CC this time around. It caused so many problems and took up so much space on my computer. Just vanilla flavour, but I hope you guys will still enjoy reading my challenges, anyway.

Here’s the link to the new blog: http://newreflections11.wordpress.com/

I’m sorry, but I hope you guys are still excited to read my new challenges.

(P.S: Who’s excited for Pets?! OMG HORSES! <3333)

 

Short Delay

I know, I know. You guys have already waited such a long time to read new chapters, but I’ve reached another bump in the road to preparation.

A while back, my Windows Vista completely crapped out on me. It was the middle of the school year and I had assignments due, so I was panicking. My friend had a copy of Linux on a disk and offered to put that OS on my computer instead. Desperate to have a working computer, I agreed. In the process of installing Linux, she wiped out my Windows partition so I could never get Windows Vista back.

Now, there are programs that will allow you to run Windows programs on Linux, but for some reason, I can’t get TS3 to run properly through those programs.

I hate Linux, anyway, and want to go back to Windows, so I asked my uncle if he had a copy of Windows XP or 7 (Vista can go die in a hole) and he said that he did. I’m free to go pick it up anytime he’s home, but I don’t have a full drivers’ license and I live out in the country, about 20 minutes away from his house. I’m going to ask my dad if he can pick it up, but if he can’t, it will likely have to wait until I get my G2 license, and I’m not sure when that will be this summer. Hopefully soon.

I’m so sorry, guys. I tried to get TS3 working on Linux. I really did.

 

Exciting Stuff!

Hey you guys!

I am super excited to be coming back in May with brand new updates and to celebrate, the forum’s undergone some changes. It has a beautiful new skin created by our newest staff member, K’rinllend’hry (you can just call her Rin for short). She’s a wonderful friend of mine and she’s going to be helping keep the place all neat and tidy! Hooray! Stop by and say hello to her!

The forum also has a new forum games board for you to enjoy when you just want to hang out and chat and be silly.

To get all the newest updates, follow Reflections on Twitter and Facebook!

Hope to see you guys there! I’ll be spending a lot of time there, anticipating May.

 

Update: Long Hiatus

I’m so touched that all of you have continued to show your support for my Sims blog even through this extremely long hiatus period where I left without warning.

The good news is I haven’t forgotten about this blog and I will continue to update the Charms. I am determined to finish this legacy. The bad news is, that won’t happen until May when I am officially out of school and on summer break. I went back to university this year and it’s been an amazing experience. I’m really happy here and finally feel like I belong somewhere and that I’m actually doing something productive with my life. As much as I love being in school again, it’s left me with no time to update the Charms or this blog at all, and although I love this blog, my school work comes first.

So sadly, no updates to my blog until the summer, but I will try and be active on the forums anyway. I’ve been out of the Simming scene for a while and would love to get caught up on all the latest Sims community news from you guys.

Apologies,

Ashleigh.

 

[Charm] Chapter Two: A Mother’s Undying Love

“So are you excited for the new baby, William?” Margaret asked her son at the breakfast table one morning. Margaret was now in her third trimester and her belly was quite round and large. She had been having some complications with this pregnancy and so everyone was tense. Margaret’s live-in nurse helped her up and down the stairs and made sure she didn’t spend too much time up and about.