Rumors, renovations, romance

Some more raptorsim silliness for a change amidst all the other raptor silliness.

Maybe I should think of some alternate approach to getting their yard to look nice and unkempt. I may like the abundance of weeds, but sims are not big fans.

"Where is my husband when I need him and his higher cleaning skill score?"

"In a moment, I'm busy with something important."

It actually got dark just after I took that screenshot, but we'll pretend otherwise for comedic effect.

They ended up thinning the weed field together for a while and then making out in the hammock, so all's well.

Watch out below!

I told her to (play) punch Sunny.

Gossiping about Tumult.

Starlight invites Daydreamer to ghost story telling on the roof, but he lets his imagination get away from him and scare him too much before they even get up there.

Instead they discuss eggs (colors and shapes and assorted sizes, gobble them all for appetizers).

Dad knows a lot of good ghost stories for future reference. (Also probably some good recipes, with and without eggs, and some even scarier stories about testing them out.)

Blue and Dawn talk about Skye literally behind her back. It looked like they said good things about her, though.

Dusk can't find the space rocket toy anywhere, where could it be!

Each side of the room has its own guardian horse.

Ready for liftoff!

Live slug Dawn reaction.

Dusk showing off his amazing cartwheeling skills attracts an audience of parents and passers-by alike.

Tumult offers to help cook lunch?

Nope, she just made a different sandwich for herself.

 

Not sure you're supposed to be able to do that... but that goes for a lot you do as a dinosaurier dinosaur, too, so, fair enough.

Shared hobbies! Brought to you by Skye's bed now being an honorary couch.

The hammock, too.

Later at night Blue and Indo find other uses for this function. Although sims can already use a hammock for "woohoo" without any mods, and it looks wonderfully ridiculous:

A centrifuck, if you will. No, that's terrible, I will not.

And then immediately after, they both roll a want to woohoo in a hammock. You just did, you animals! And you have a perfectly good bed upstairs. Shoo! :D

See what I have to put up with?

I forgot they come out to the balcony for backrubs. Go put some clothes on, you have guests (if Tumult counts, she basically lives here anyway).

Should she wear the leather jacket, or perhaps the leather jacket?

(the shirts hanging in the closet nook are a dresser. the jacket on the wall, now that I mentioned it, is a deco item)

Speaking of dressers, I put another clothing pile functioning as such in the hallway so the kids can change out of pajamas more easily, without having to queue for the stairs or sneak into their parents' room. The laundry hamper seems like a logical place for discarding an outfit... not sure if this means they also pick their day clothes from dirty laundry, so let's not think about that part.

Check out Ruckus' new bird hoodie.

When the radio's playing your favorite song somewhere on the lot, you've got to dance, even if you happen to be in the bathroom when you hear it, says Tumult.

Starlight: Don't mind me.

And sometimes you don't even need music.

Skye got a bigger window in her treehouse, with more room for her stuff.

Under the bed is still where the art supplies live, though. In my experience, where they're the least convenient is where they tend to naturally migrate to anyway.

Blue and Meripihka hadn't seen each other in a while, and their relationship score wasn't as high anymore. Blue tried to hug her, and was rejected! But they're still happy enough to see each other to wave, right?

Dusk asks Meripihka to dance, and they end up blocking Blue's way out of the bathroom. Will today's humiliations never end?

But have no fear, there's an escape route!

This arrangement has surely showed up in the background of a few screenshots before, and I'm not sure if it requires an explanation, but here you go, especially now that I've finally found an appropriate arch for that hole in the wall (arch is originally from here, the recolor is from here). I couldn't fit a sink in the downstairs bathroom with the two stalls I put there (because you can never have too many toilets on a multi-sim lot), and though sims don't really need to wash their hands, I like to pretend they do (and also it boosts their hygiene a bit), so my thought here was that the raptors couldn't get a functioning sink in there either, with the state the house was in when they moved in, and so instead they wash their hands in this bucket and garden hose faucet combo just outside the bathroom. There was a hole in the wall there that they just covered with a tarp or something to keep the weather out instead of fixing it, because it makes for a convenient shortcut to the makeshift sink. (Also their washing machine is outside for the similar reason that somehow they could get it connected to an existing water pipe only through that wall, I guess, lol.)

As DIY'd appliances are wont to do, it breaks down a lot.

Meripihka was so impressed with Blue's skill at fixing things by angrily hitting them with a wrench that they're best friends again. Love wins.

Seeking advice from big sister to solve a troubling mystery - are elephants really small?

The little siblings hang out at her room afterwards while she paints.

Get your dirty shoes off your sister's bed, Sunny! Were you raised in a barn?

Oh, right, she was raised by these two, who only bother to make their bed when they're about to mess it up again (valid). With shoes on (less so).