Animal Award!

Animal Award

Best award picture ever, and wholly and fullheartedly stolen from Toxi

Thank you so much to Toxi and her Absolutely Cuckoo sims for the Animal blog award. It's also a lot better name then spirit animal award, because it's not just offensive, it's a bit strange. I sure as hell feel more like a bloodthirsty, ferocious animal running wild in the deep dark woods, than something spiritual. For those who aren't aware of it, the native americans have other struggles than just appropriation, and there are several better ways to honour them

It's a huge honour really, also because I thought I had about four readers, and now it's up to five, maybe even six *dries tears*. And just ignore the fact that Toxi is from a neighbour country, it has absolutely nothing to do with it.... cough...

Now, down to the blogs, who probably got the award already and I don't even think I can name ten. And actually I don't know any of the rules for the award other than the ones Toxi wrote, and I'm having my finals soon so I don't really have time to ... hey look, an iguana!

The poor, nameless iguana

The Kahekilis- Nirars "the Kahekilis" is one of the mastodonts of the random legacy challenge. It isn't just beautifully written, it's a mix between a fairytale and realism, and the weirdness that is the sims. It's quite possibly one of the best random legacy stories out there, and it's a long read but it won't disappoint you. It's also the blog that made me start reading simstories for real.

Secrets of the Sixkillers- Sunnys random legacy has the best surname of them all. Just the name makes you want to read it. It's an intelligent story that drops hints in the pictures and writing alike, to both the past, presence and future; hence the title of the blog. Sunnys sims are also flawed, sometimes to the extreme, but you still love them. Even when you really don't want to.

Matthews random legacy- Futurecarries legacy is a bundle of lovely strangeness from the start, that makes you want to keep reading. All the sims in the households gets their own stories, so you will never feel that your favourite sim was left out. It's also that story where you never trust your own instincts as to what's going to happen.

Anything is possible: the Diffy random legacy challenge- Godreadingcrafts interacts with the sims in this gamedriven story. The comments by the author alone is enough to make you laugh. It's a giggle and weirdness fest, where the glitches are an integrated part. It even makes you wonder what's happening with the glitches. It's a blog that makes you relax and just makes you remember what's to love about the game, especially the glitches.

Hidingout randomlegacy-  MeganPagan has a highly realistic approach to the simsgame, sweetly written with likable sims. Their struggles are heartfelt, and they'll hit you straight in the feels. I'm looking at you Rachel... Also, such a natural use of poses that you probably won't notice they are there. Do yourself a favour and check out her other stories

Marquel random legacy- Convicted dreamer takes beautiful pictures that compliments an eerie and dark story. Careful what you stick your sims nose into, or they'll end up with the same faith as these poor things

The only way is up- Gemmas back with a new legacy. As much as I miss the headstrong fairy, the new family is living the simlife so far. Oh Gemma, will you ever give your sims a break?

Soapberry random legacy- Wagaturtle writes this gamedriven blog, with colourful pictures of equally colourful sims, the random snarky comments makes a great pick- me-up in a otherways stressful day

Diamond random legacy- Skyegal writes a really straightforward gamesblog with the pictures to accompany it. I'll admit that I love the pure gameblogs, because it takes a little something to know what to put in, and to take out. Skyegal is probably the blogger that is truest to the rules of the random legacy challenge, and she deserves all possible honour for that

The beehive- Owl Faces blog is packed with action, general weirdness and aliens. What's not to like about that? She's on a bit of hiatus at the moment, but I'll say that what's been posted until now is a great read none the less

Oh, I could name ten

WhiteCat rules "the box"

Animal Blog Award Acceptance Rules:

1) Thank the blogger who nominated you, and link back you their page
2) Post the award picture on your blog (I stole the wrong one, but that still counts)
3) Write a short paragraph about yourself and what your blog means to you
4) If you could be an animal, what would it be?
5) Pick and notify ten nominees

Okay, so number 3 then....

I'm a single mother of one, that started school a few years ago at a way to ripe age. I don't really have a lot of time to do anything I like at the moment, but like most people I like old stuff and museums. I have a weird obsession with history and mythology in general. I grew up in a small coastal city in Norway, and now had to move to closer to school. Which is just two hours away, but this place is freezing in winter, and so warm in summer it's almost killing my poor scandinavian self. This summer I'm going to go mountain climbing, find a trollcave, chase the troll out and move into it's former lair. It's true, there really are trolls in Norway ;) Other than that, I'm going through the same embarassing process that most of you have only heard of; where I try to figure out what I like. Some of these things feels like coming home, even if I'm probably to old

4) Uhm, what animal would I be? I'm usually quite favourable towards the wolverine, but some stupid superhero ruined it. I don't really have a reason to it, they just look really neat, but can be so viscious.
Can I pick a troll? Trolls counts as animals, don't they? No? Then... how about a uhm.... jellyfish, hagfish (is that really what it's called?), ehm... polarbears? They look a bit neat to, really. But maybe a hippo? Now they seem to be enjoying themselves, standing in a river with barely just their ears popping up. Or a crocodile? A really old, big, lumpy and mean one. That one sounds like me.Why doesn't these awards have you picking what kind of dinosaur you'd be? Everyone loves dinosaurs

So here's a picture of a real lifetime dinosaur, these things walks the forests around here. This one likes to sing good- night songs to little boys, and just as they are about to think they can safely call it a night.... dino attacks and eats their feet. True story that one. If you got all this way, you deserve a cookie. But I ate it, so you can look at the picture of dino instead