Thanks for the suggestions @ y'all, funny thing is that the moment I posted that I went to take a shower and was hit with Thoughts (tm), and managed to come up with a sorta-solution too: I could knock a sim up with sim blender, then accelerate the pregnancy, then mess around with the memories and such to make it seem like they adopted the baby, then blame similarities on coincidence *wink* or genetic engineering (these people are probably rich enough for that). Funnily enough, after coming up with this, I also managed to get the idea of making all townies and adoptables related to the J.S. sim as a nod to Steph0sims, whose sim popped out 100 babies in under 24 hours. Maybe I shouldn't ground myself in reality so much, lol

I think there's a balance we have to find between our reality and sim reality. In sim-land, male pregnancy through alien abduction is totally realistic and normal. In our land, ....well I 'spose I can't prove that it's not

Yeah, my game is far from grounded in reality

I feel like I've known this, but I just noticed that I have a weakness for downloading anything cat themed.

Do I need more cat pictures that I'll almost never use?
Yes

Periodically I find myself wishing I could PLAY the game rather than work on projects in it, but I have exactly zero neighborhoods that capture my interest, and the one I really want to play is the one that a lot of my current projects are FOR, so that doesn't exactly help...

Haha, same!! For weeks now I've been working on choosing JUST the right mix of cc for a new neighborhood I want to set up rather than just... setting it up and playing it.

To be fair it's gonna be really epic when I finally do!

Between my two uploads I have ~100 total downloads so far

Aaaah, I never imagined I'd get any at all!

There are not enough hours in the day to download all the cc I keep finding...

Oh for sure, same here! But an enormous urban fantasy FILLED (and I do mean filled) with dense urban cityscape, including plenty of skyscrapers and fictitious landmarks, isn't gonna be done anytime soon!

A while ago I got a mod that prompts me when a kid/teen wants to bring another kid/teen home from school.

It occurred to me just now that I've not once said no.

What mod is that? I would've said no plenty of times because visitor controller doesn't work on kids brought home from school.

Twojeff's schoolbus - bring friend home dialog idk where all his mods are being stored these days but this archive link was the first thing that came up on google. I don't remember if that's where I got it from or if it's somewhere else too.

Neither have I, unless I knew the kid to be a plague carrier, but in cases of plague it's useful. What I really got the mod for, though, IIRC, is that it omits vacation townies from the calculation of sims eligible to be brought home, and increases the chances of bringing home a playable.