Di's Victorian Vexes

So, I’ve finished playing my rotation, and rather than getting straight on and making my backups, I decided to get everyone’s pictures up to date for the Who’s Who and family tree, so head on over to them to see everyone who has become an adult recently and also a few sims you’ve not met yet. I spent an enjoyable few hours making sims of extended family members for both Sophia and Lauren and Sir Horace, and as is often the case, seeing the sims helped me to cement some of the aspects of their characters in my mind. Have a drabble that came to me this morning concerning one of them.


Title:  Gweneth
Rating: U. 
Spoiler rating: 2/10. 
Summary: Sarah Jane attends a formal ball with Sir Horace.
Notes: The incident with the bishop is entirely fictional, and I've taken a liberty by making it seem that Disraeli and Gladstone swapped in and out of power more than they actually did.
Word Count: 993.

( “Horace, there you are! I knew you would skulking somewhere around here!”  )

This is my first response for the + 5000 fall in love meme organised by fireflowersims.

Title:  Oh For a Bit of Peace and Quiet.
Prompt: A&A: Valentine's day...but they have SIX kids. I can't imagine a lot of private time in there from peasant007
Rating: PG I suppose. 
Summary:  Anthony and Alexandra return home after a night out on Valentine's Day.
Notes: Argh, I’m so rusty. I’m not overly pleased with how this all read once I got it down on paper. It sounded so much better in my head when I was thinking it up. It doesn’t seem to flow as well as I would like, at all. But then again, asking for prompts for this meme, is a way to get me back to writing, so hopefully that’s all to the good, and I’ll improve. That being said, this did turn out being longer than I thought it would, and could probably do with editing.

On to notes about the circumstances of this piece. It’s set not long after Zane joined the family (my time of year is all messed up I know, but that’s the constraints of the game for you), so all six of the children are at home. Their rough ages are: Bethany and Christopher, 17, coming up 18, David, 14, Sarah Jane, 12, Zane 10 and Mickey 9.
Word Count: 2041


( Now where were we? )

Title:  Clandestine,
Prompt: A clandestine meeting at the Natural history museum.
Rating: U. 
Spoiler rating:  1/10. 
Summary:  Vicky attends a meeting.
Notes:  I don't really have much to say about this.  It would be nice to say that this is a lead in to a new interlude, but it's not.  It's just a little scene that came to me on reading the prompt.  Oh!  But it does let me claim a Myshuno!
Word Count: 665.

My card.

( She felt the fizz of excitement start bubbling through her veins. )

Title: Corsets and Bustles, oh my.
Prompt: Fashion/the pros and cons of dressing Victorian.
Rating: U. 
Spoiler rating:  1/10.
Summary:  The Sophia sisters discuss fashion as they dress.
Notes: Basically this is just a nice little scene showing a bit more of both characters.  The emphasis is more on fashion, than the pros and cons of their way of dressing, but that's in there too.  Also, once I started writing these two, I realised I could have gotten very rambly, so I've tried to keep it on track.
Word Count: 1,377


( "Oh lord, please do not let panniers become fashionable again." )

Another long drabble for simspiration.

( Do not poke my sister with your walking stick! )

So, this is long again, which is why it's over here.  I also don't quite know what was going on in my mind when I was writing this this morning.  My prose isn't normally as florid as the first couple of paragraphs of this are so, yeah.  It's not really my style of writing at all, and I don't know why I wrote it this way, but I hope it's fun to read .  Enjoy.



( "I have been th...th...thinking," )

I've written far too much again, and what was a small idea has snowballed as I've set the scene for the pay off.  Enjoy. 

( "You know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight." ("A Thousand Miles" - Vanessa Carlton) )

Yet another drabble which is far too long for the comments at sim_spiration .  I'm making a habit out of this.  I'm also making  habit out of writing mushy stuff, but never mind.  :D
( “Some say love it only comes once in a lifetime / Well, once is enough for me” ("Up Against the Wall" – The Whitlams) )

So I went over the character limit with this one, so it's over here.  I'm also not that happy with the ending to this, but here it is anyway.  Enjoy.


( Cherries )

Ok, my long drabble for today's prompt Donna Doran is under the cut.  It's a work in progress and will more than likely appear in some form in my legacy.

( Donna Doran )