So, I've decided to participate in the simstorytellers forum drabbles. If you read Whedonberry, this might be something I tackle head-on and it might not. If not, you can consider this as an "extra" within the story.

Hey, guys!  Just putting out the word that Chapter 17:  Verses is out and ready to be read!!

Part One:
http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=215715

Part Two:

http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=215692

Enjoy!!

I decided that I ought to link my stories here at Live Journal for anyone who isn't a part of Boolprop.com

Whedonberry is a story that uses the legacy structure, but not all of the legacy rules. In fact, I tend to make them up as I go along. The legacy structure is just a means to an end, the end being a (hopefully) good story. My characters are named for Sci-Fi and Fantasy characters that I like. I choose to include comic book names, too.

Most of the chapters are told as a story with no interaction between Author and Creation.  I warn non-legacy people that they may want to skip the first chapter as it is very...legacy-ish.  I fully admit that it was kind of thrown together in an attempt to get my feet wet with sim writing.

In my opinion, the story really doesn't come into it's own until Chapter 6:  Resurrection.   It was about that time that I started learning how to use Custom Content and hacks that made my game better.  Also, that was about the time I upgraded my graphics to make the pictures look better.

As of right now, I use the Sims 2 as the host of Whedonberry. However,  I am starting to consider Live Journal as a viable place to tell the story, as well.  The reason is simply that sometimes I have several pictures in succession that might tell the story better if they're seen side by side instead of click by click.  I'm probably going to do an unrelated story first to see if I like it.  Anyhoo, that's the backstory of Whedonberry.  I hope you enjoy the commentary and the easy access index.

First, I will start with this

"List fifteen fictional characters that you would have sex a meaningful relationship (yeah really, that's what I mean) with (in no particular order) and tag five people to do the same."

"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Live Journal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to."

Okay, so those were the instructions.  I'm not tagging anyone because you've probably been tagged already.  About three months ago, I created a Whedonberry mix to help me write.  When I can't write, I create soundtracks for the story.  In fact, it's how I make decisions about the storyline.  I had no idea if Deanna would end up with Pao or Isaac.  One Sweet Love was playing in my boyfriend's truck and it inspired the train scene.  These are some highlights of my soundtrack now and the lyrics that make it so.

1.  All Night, Sam Phillips
     Okay this could be one of the sexiest songs ever.  I'm serious, everyone should download it now.  It sounds like a modern version of something Kurt Weill would've written and gotten Lottie Lenya to sing.  I had to sing it for the preshow of The Tempest this summer.

You came up behind me,
Grabbed my wrists in the dark
And said, "Don't look at what you can't see"


2.  Run to the Water, Live
     This song is one of those songs that sets my soul free every time I listen to it.  I always feel inspired by LIVE.  They seem to touch on the very essence of the human condition for me.  Don't be surprised to see some of their lyrics end up in something I post.

And I will never leave you
Till we can say
This world was just a Dream, we were sleeping
Now we are Awake


3.  Lacrymosa, Evanescence
     Once again, I am in love with this band.  I far prefer their second album to their first.  This usage of Mozart in a modern style brings to my mind images of vampires at a costume ball.  Don't ask me why, that's the story in my head.

Out on your own,
Cold and alone again
Can this be what you really wanted, baby?


4.  Rest in Peace, James Marsters, Once More With Feeling (The Buffy Musical)
Spike's song from the Buffy Musical.  Massive character crush for me.  Not because he's the bad boy, but because he has the most poignant observations.  He'll say things that no one else will because he doesn't care if he's liked as a general rule...or at least he wants it to appear that way.

I died many years ago
You can make me feel like it isn't so
But why you come to be with me, I think I finally know

You're scared, ashamed of what you feel
You can't tell the ones you love, you know they couldn't deal
Whisper in the Dead man's ear, doesn't make it real
 

5.  Mack the Knife, Lottie Lenya
I admit that I listen to both the German and the English versions even though I don't speak German.  I don't know why, but I really like this song.  Not the loungy version, but the dark version that's in the musical.

When the shark bites with his teeth dear
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves though wears Macheath dear
So there's not a trace of red


6.  Race You To the Top of the Morning, Mandy Patinkin from The Secret Garden
I am using this song and changing some of the lyrics in the next two chapters of Whedonberry as a story that Drusilla is telling her children.  This song reminds me of my Papa, who used to tell me stories and make up new lyrics to songs to include me and him in it.  I'm sort of doing that  with Dru.

As it is, I must leave you in care of my brother,
The wizard who lives on the hill
Who has promised his art will soon pierce through the heart,
Of this Dragon that's keeping you ill...


7.  My Last Breath, Evanescence
I listen to more Evanescence than I should.  I happen to be a fan of vampires and their music reminds me of vampires.

Can you hear me?
Can you feel me in your arms?
Holding my last breath,
Safe inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you
Sweet raptured life, it ends here tonight


So that's my Whedonberry Soundtrack.  I looked back through it and it's pretty damn creepy.  Actually, I'm a very perky person, who just happens to like some dark music.

Well, by spoiler I don't mean that I'm telling you what's going to happen per se.  I'm just giving some photos of ze bebes who make up Generation E of Whedonberry.  Okay, whoever said that Grim spins pretty wasn't lying.  He took care of all of the angularities that have made the toddlers of Whedonberry...unique so far.



To start off, I show you a couple of baby shots of Deanna.

She's not ugly, but she's kind of unsettling.

Now for Gen E.

Here's Eustace, firstborn of the Reaper twins.

And this is Evangeline, the second twin.

They're gorgeous littluns, I think.  Evangeline is named for Evangeline Whedon, the attorney for the X-men and also a mutant.  Eustace is named for Eustace Scrubb of The Chronicles of Narnia series.

BONUS POINTS FOR THE PERSON WHO CAN TELL ME WHAT THE NAMESAKES OF EUSTACE AND EVANGELINE HAVE IN COMMON FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE STORIES.

Finally, I leave you with this.  I had to get rid of Drusilla's awesome custom content hair because it blocked her face horribly, making pictures the devil.  Here's the new cut...
Any thoughts?

Title:	Brave New World
Date:	2008-02-20 @ 13:45
Security:	public
Location:	the old dominion
Music:	Eddie From Ohio
Mood:	weird

So, here I am.  I've never had a livejournal before nor have I really seen what they looked like up until De (fireflowersims) told me that I should join the massive Sim Party that frolicks about.  I've been peering around and I am glad that I joined up.  This is primarily going to be my sounding board for my legacy Whedonberry, but don't be surprised to see other random stuff as well.  I'm a random kind of gal...

So, I guess by now I should introduce myself.  Yes, I know that there's a section for this crap in my profile, but I just feel freer doing it here.  My name is Stacie and I'm an actress.  It's been three days since my last performance.  (Collective Group:  "Hi, Stacie)

 Right now I am playing a sarcastic flapper named Sally in a murder mystery dinner show that opens Friday.  I do data entry to support my habit (theatre, not anything else...okay, so I do enjoy a good wine...or martini, extra dirty, three olives...) and spend my free time playing the Sims and reveling in all things comicy-supernaturaly-science-fictiony.  On occasion, I also do Shakespeare for youth workshops as an assistant because I love it and it brings in a little extra bling for the rent.  I've also recently been cast/accepted (I don't really know the proper term in this instance) into an improv comedy troupe.  I do these things whilst living in a house with my boyfriend Luc and helping him renovate.  Our new kitchen cabinets are gorgeous.

Well, I guess that's about it.  For now, I will bid you adieu and leave you with something random to discuss with friends and family...

Obi-Wan Kenobi, according to the new Star Wars trilogy, went into hiding to avoid being slaughtered by the Sith and so he could unobtrusively keep an eye on Anakin's son Luke.  When he went into hiding, Obi-Wan Kenobi changed his name...to Ben KENOBI.  What the heck, man?!!