To be fair...depending on the simulation genre its not the DLC that gets you...its the hardware.

I will give this to EA: They truly do offer something for everyone. I don’t have a lick of supernatural content in my Sims 4 (or any other Sims game, and I’ve been playing since Sims 2 first came out in 2004) install, nor have I ever had even the slightest interest in allowing such things.

There’s always a mod for that.

I would pay for a Superhero expansion. The whole Thor living as a roommate bonus content for the MCU was hilarious.

This is a great analysis and makes me like Amy a bit more.  I related to Jo’s character as growing up, I wasn’t stereotypically feminine and loved to read.  I would look down on other women who had these more stereotypical traits.  Then I matured a bit, and why is it so wrong to like things that may be considered…

I personally did not want any of them to marry Laurie, as I thought his obsession with being part of the family was gross

Also- the Alcotts were sort of insane! I mean they were lots of good things - but they refused to eat root vegetables because they grew downwards (they only ate “aspiring” vegetables that grew towards the sun). The girls were also schooled in self denial as a virtue so I’ve always assumed that Amy is just rebelling…

“She knew when she married him that she wasn’t going to end up living in a barn with a bunch of strange boys and a middle aged German telling her to give up her artistic aspirations.” r e t w e e t

But Amy didn’t “take” Laurie, Jo turned him down. Was Amy supposed to refuse him (and his wealth) because Jo didn’t want to marry him?

She’s also 12 at the beginning of the book, which I feel like people sometimes forget because she is so involved in the affairs of her much older sisters. Kids are supposed to be insufferable at 12, that’s just how they are! 

I’ve always admired Amy’s growth too. None of the other characters grow as much as Amy does. 

Considering that marriage was pretty much inescapable at the time once you got into it, I think Amy was also pretty smart for going with the devil she knew over the one she didn’t. Laurie might not be the brightest bulb, but he does genuinely love her family, seems willing to accept her criticisms of his character and…

The Hummels! Not Hubbles. It’s like Moors/Moops.

Yes. Thank you! I am neither #teamBhaer nor #teamLaurie for Jo, but I always think it is a tragedy when she lets Bhaer convince her that she should give up writing stories her way, and instead write them his way. It sucks.

I always found her to be a lot less hypocritical than her sisters, because let’s be honest, the ONLY reason they are able to act the way they do and not be total pariahs is that they are from a respectable (if now impoverished) family. If they were more firmly lower class, Jo running around with the boys wouldn’t be…

And truly, a talent for friendship is not to be underestimated. It makes life richer--especially important when your family is so insular and tightly-knit as the Marches. It also has the potential to open professional doors, something Jo didn’t appreciate until she lost out on the chance to go to Europe. 

Seriously. The Marches/Alcotts were a lot of very good things (abolitionists!), but they also come across as just horribly self-righteous and self-important. You can hardly blame Amy for wanting to get away from her buzz-kill relatives every now and then.

Team Amy all the way! I loved this piece. All Amy wanted was a few nice dresses, some pickled limes, and a different nose than the one she was born with. I have such a soft spot for Little Women, but the older I get the more I get annoyed with Alcott’s dismissal of Amy. Amy had a talent for friendship, something Jo…

I feel like I understand LW a lot better now, having learned a bit about Alcott. All of her disdain of feminine things, all of her euphoria over having some free time to write... I think a lot of it makes sense when you figure in the abject poverty her family lived in, how her father’s Thoreau-like philosophy landed…

I respect the Amys of the world for the same reason I respect the hell out of Kris Jenner and her daughters. Those women are hustlers. And people hate on them for using the mostly shitty tools our world allows them to erect better lives for themselves than most others’. Fuck that noise. Get your money (education,…