Play? Play.

 I'm getting the urge to play Sims all day again. I blame Caryn and Connie.
And what's stopping me? Absolutely nothing!

There's always that voice on the back of my head saying I should be working instead. But screw that! Not today. 

Today I get to be an architect and a home decorator. To be honest, I'm not that great at the architecture part. But decorating? Making a room cozy and cluttered, filled with plants and string lights (again, I blame the twins lol)? I love it!

Let me show you what I made for my Discord server. I wanted to illustrate the kind of place I envision the server to be. 

You enter through The Lighthouse. It looks more like a cake than a lighthouse... Shhh. 
I even made one of my beacons!

You can't really interact with much at this point, but you can have a little look. 

 

 

And after you agree to the rules, you can get in through the door hidden behind the curtain.

 

 

Then you have the living room, although I called it The Fireplace. The place to sit around and chat about this and that. Pet friendly. 

 

 

 

Next there's The Library. The place to gather and share resources and al nerd out about your favorite things.

 

There's also The Studio, which looks a lot like my actual studio. But tidier. Ahah. Here you can share whatever you're working on. 

 

Then there's The Patio. Where you can look outside and share links to other people's work all around the universe that is the internet. And also links to your own stuff.

 

 

We also have a The Treehouse. It's not really working at the moment. I had this cool idea of making collaborative art, you know several people working together on the same piece. I still think it's an awesome idea, but turns out I just don't have the mental energy to organize things on a regular basis. Then again, I barely have anyone around in there, so that also eats up my motivation. I'd like to get it rolling again at some point. We'll see how that goes.

 

 

And finally, there's The Café. or when you don't really want to chat, just chill for a while with a drink and a snack and some nice background music. Unfortunately, you have to provide your own drink and snack.

I had a great time creating all this, but I've come to realize I'm not that great at maintaining a server. Or maybe I just never got lucky enough to have a core group that is always present and keeping the server alive.