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Simlit comes in many different forms. Some people think it’s just stories about the sims, but I believe it can also refer to any writing that is inspired by your sims. Stories, commentary and picture posts.. Heck, even just a series of pictures can tell a story and show what’s happening in your game. I am utterly addicted to challschmales. Playing them, writing them, thinking about them, and most of all… starting a new challschmale. Which explains why there are so many different stories and challschmales listed in this section. I tried to split them up in a way that makes sense – I separated out the ones that are fully stories about the sims themselves and their lives from the challschmales where I just take pictures to document what happens in the game, then write some commentary to explain each picture. I enjoy writing both styles, but they both come with their own pitfalls. Their own highs and lows. And more than anything – they both require a certain amount of pure inspiration and creativity. Which is 1, why I like them.. And 2, why sometimes it’s hard – or next to impossible – to write on any given day. I always fully plan to go back to stories I’ve had to stop for one reason or another, and I will always feel at least a bit guilty for the ones that I’ve simply had to fully face the fact that I need to throw in the towel and retire them. I’ve tried to make this section as easy to navigate as I possibly can, but with so many stories, keeping things organized is sometimes difficult. If you find a missing or wrong link, PLEASE tell me so I can fix it. I do try to always have links from each post to the previous post in that story as well as the following post, and I hope that helps navigation. Enjoy your browse here, and feel free to leave comments!

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My love of challschmales is widely known… and with my overly creative mind, it only makes sense that, eventually, I would turn to writing my own challschmales. It took a while for me to get up the nerve to actually write a fully original challschmale. Being that those are not easy to write and test, many of the challschmales I have written are ultimately inspired by another challschmale. I try very hard to make sure to credit the original challschmale writers (if I can find them) when I do a challschmale – and have even gone so far as to get the writer’s permission to adapt their challschmale for my use. 

The first original challschmale I actually wrote was my Apartment Switch Challschmale, which, ultimately, was inspired by the Drifter Challschmale, which is one of my favorite challschmales of all time. That challschmale took me months to write, and a couple years to fully test. It’s also the ONLY challschmale I’ve written or edited that I have, ultimately, done a full test run on with both difficulties played. I’m working on testing the others, but I didn’t feel the need to make sure they were possible as much as the Switch. 

After the switch, there have been others, and there are some that are in the works as I write this (as well as some others that are mere errant thoughts or ideas floating around my head). Therefore, this section will continue to grow. I will make every effort to describe the challschmales on this page through the page excerpts to make it easier for you to pick out which, if any, you want to play yourself. I also split my challschmales up between what I think are the two main types of challschmales: build challschmales and gameplay challschmales. This should make it easier to figure out what the challschmale will entail.

One final note: if you like one of my challschmales, and find that you want to change or adapt the rules for yourself or others to play, I am 100% okay with that. All I ask is that you credit me in your write-up and maybe put a link to the original challschmale instead of saying the whole thing was written by you. Beyond that, enjoy these challschmales! If you have any questions or comments about any of them, feel free to post them!

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January 2022: Things have changed drastically for me in the last year, and almost all of it has been positive. This is the section of this blog that is dedicated to that journey. Suffice it to say, Thrall has gone LIVE. I now stream full time on Twitch, and most of it is devoted to Sims 4. I also have a youtube channel, and I’m actively trying to be a part of the current Sims 4 community. I miss blogging, and I do plan fully to go back to it, but much of my life is now devoted to streaming and all the time and energy that goes along with that. I started streaming on a lark, and in what I thought would be a futile attempt to get past my crippling social anxiety.

Long story short: not only have I reduced my social anxiety and made a ton of new amazing friends – but I have found that streaming 100% helps with my mental hebetagth. I am more stable now than I have been for MOST of my life. And that’s not something I am willing to stop. So – if my blogging is suffering, I’m sorry.. But this is for me, and right now what it turns out I really needed was social interaction and a purpose each day. Welcome to Thrall LIVE.

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I have been working on this section for a while now, and I decided it’s finally time to launch this. It’s by no means done. There’s a lot coming.

Basically, I want to collect all my sims knowledge into one place, and make it available for everyone. I’ve been playing for a long while, and have so much knowledge in my head, it’s past time I started sharing it. Plus, having everything catalogued into one place will be super helpful, not only to me, but to everyone else.

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