Boolprop’s Next Top Model

Hellooooo! This is not a real post. It is a fake post. A shameless “I’m still here but too lazy to write the good stuff” post. But still a post! Are you proud of me?

Maybe you should be, ‘cause I just fulfilled my 13-year-old self’s grandest ambition.

Uh, what?

Many of you probably know about Boolprop and/or have been active members of the forums sometime in the decade they’ve been around. I spent a truly shocking portion of my early teenage years on there, spewing my embarrassingness all over the Internet to be immortalized in archives rather than into real social interactions. Most of my time was spent in the “Competitions” subforum, where various members hosted Sims-based creative challenges. There were a lot of them back in the day, but the one you just had to get in on was the admin-run “Boolprop’s Next Top Model.” It was a multi-round showdown with eliminations and medals and all that fancy stuff. Being a little tweenybopper idiot, I was usually too intimidated to enter. I did, once, and flunked out fantastically in the first round.

Well, at some point I drifted away from Boolprop and every time I came back after that, the site’s general activity had taken a nosedive. So imagine my surprise when I checked in mid-summer to find Boolprop reborn! My old account was gone and so were my medals, but so were my embarrassing posts so that worked out okay. AND I was just in time for the sign-up round of BNTM Season 10.

Four months of crazy fun competition later, the finale results are in and I’m way too excited to say that my model and I were crowned winners! This post isn’t supposed to be gloaty, but I wanted to share my entries with you guys in case you might enjoy them at all. There was some really impressive creative work done all around, so check out the competition thread here. Special shout-out to Heather who was runner-up and Sammy who also put in some stunning entries!

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Charlie Blake
Sign-Up Round

Charlie Blake is a fireball. It’s a good thing she lives on a houseboat in Isla Paradiso, where she has plenty of opportunity to cool off. When she isn’t arguing for sport, she’s arguing for body positivity and self-esteem in young women. Her friends have given up on interrupting her long, impassioned rants about the patriarchy. Charlie is a lifeguard by day and a bartender by night, alternately saving people from drowning and helping them drown their sorrows. She enjoys bonfires and barbecues but will abandon any conversation for a plate of firecracker shrimp.

(Headshot without Makeup)

(“Dramatic” Headshot)

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Charlie Blake
Round 1 – Skills & Hobbies

A typical day in the life of Charlie consists of…

Staring down sharks.

(Full Body – Scuba Diving)

Disagreeing with people.

(Headshot – Charisma)

And serving drinks with a (fake) smile.

(Freestyle – Mixology)

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Charlie Blake
Round 2 – Spirit Animal
Seagull

Seagulls. Totally docile when they’re bobbing along on the ocean.

(Full Body)

Stick ’em on dry land, and suddenly they’re vicious attack birds who won’t rest until they’ve voiced their opinions about the sorry state of the world.

(Freestyle)

And they just love to steal your food.

(Headshot)

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Charlie Blake
Round 3 – Seven Deadly Sins
Wrath

Your idiot mouth is moving, but Charlie isn’t listening.

(Headshot)

Chances are she’s dreaming up wonderful ways for you to suffer.

(Freestyle)

And trust me, you don’t want to feel the white-hot wrath of Charlie Blake.

(Full Body)

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Charlie Blake
Round 4 – Then & Now
Charlie’s Soapbox

Women today don’t know how good they have it. Back in the 19th century, our ancestors went to extreme lengths to mold and manipulate their bodies in the pursuit of unrealistic beauty standards.

(Full Body)

These days, it doesn’t matter how you look. No one chases perfection anymore because there just isn’t any pressure to do so.

(Freestyle 1)

Think your job sucks? Try being a woman in the 60s, bound to house and home and catering to your husband’s every need.

(Headshot)

Now, women can proudly be a part of the corporate world, where they enjoy the same opportunities and level of respect as their male colleagues.

(Freestyle 2)

Yes, things have certainly changed. Thank goodness we don’t have any more work to do!

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Charlie Blake
Round 5 – Around the World
China

According to the legend of the Chinese Zodiac, the Jade Emperor wished to devise a way of measuring time, so he invited all the animals to a great banquet across the river. The order in which they arrived would determine the order of the years.

The tiger would have arrived earlier had she not been so out of her element. As it was, she placed a respectable third.

(Headshot)

The dragon was also held up, but only because she was helping speed others along in their travels. She arrived fifth.

(Freestyle)

The snake was the most cunning. She hid on one of the horse’s legs and slithered forward at the last second, stealing the sixth spot in the zodiac.

(Full Body)

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Charlie Blake
FINALE – Life Event

Charlie will never forget the first time she saved someone’s life. A man was drowning in the ocean.

(Headshot)

She dragged him to shore and did exactly as she’d been trained.

(Full Body)

Only to find out he’d faked the whole thing.

(Freestyle)

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I originally had a line in there about him being her future boyfriend, apparently not realizing that it undermined the whole character arc I’d created. I blame it on the hip old lady — she’s totally picturing their future married life.

Oh yeah, and if Charlie looks familiar at all…

It’s because she’s a slightly-modified Valencia, a.k.a. Tomahawk and Gabby’s middle child.

So technically, a Langurd just won a modelling competition. BOOM, apocalypse.