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I came back from the dead just to say this:

I, too, was planning on voting for arts and crafts above everything else, but the TS4 team really surprised me with some great concepts on some of the other packs.

I hope people won’t rush through the descriptions, because you might miss something you would have liked. I saw multiple ideas implying new plants or recipes, which is something I personally really live for, so I ranked those higher.

Take your time voting and give it some thought. You might end up voting differently than you initially thought you would.

My personal hope is that we get Happy Haunts and that they throw in the herbal tea infusions from the Self Care pack, because I want my fortuneteller to drink ALL the tea. Thematically, I think they could make it work.

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The Golden Clover Theater

19th century theater, brand-new as of 1895 (please ignore the time-traveling tourists in the photo, they have been entranced by the piano). Downstairs you will find the cloak room and areas to mingle in during intermissions. Upstairs is the VIP area, with an exclusive balcony, as well as a smoke room for the men. Backstage you will find the usual prop rooms and etc. Those nocturnally inclined may wish to abscond into the basement for a nap until the evening performance begins.

Minimal CC:

Brazen Lotus’s Separated Beds

OrangeMittens Mirrors Move Like Paintings

OrangeMittens Classic Mirror

This has been posted on the gallery, my username is Aflutter.

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Just some stuff I’ve been working on lately.

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I made a Squire and Knight career for TS4 and I’m putting them up for adoption.

So, I have a medieval save in TS4, but I’m not having fun with it because of the constant immersion breaking when my sims have to go off to their careers and wear their career outfits (among other things). I’m playing a knight right now, so I made a knight career with an accompanying part-time squire career.

BUT, I know JACK SHIT about coding. I’m not going to spend time learning to code for this; I have too much stuff I’m dealing with right now. If someone could take this off my hands, that would be great. I don’t even care if I get credit for this; I just want to have a knight career for my game.

If someone wants to do a collab instead, I would be up for that, too. I might be able to muster up more energy for this project if I had someone to work on it with me. I do have a Bard career that I’ve worked on also, but it’s less fleshed out than this is.

FYI, I came up with the amount paid and days worked by looking at equivalent-ish careers in TS4.

Squire, Part Time Job (Note: there used to be a mod that made it so kids didn’t have to go to school. I don’t know if it’s still around and/or unbroken, but that’s what the “No School” entries are for. Alternately, this could be a part time or full time career for adults, idk.)

1. Squire of Arms – It is your job to clean, polish and maintain the armor and swords of the Lord of the Castle and his knights. Mind you don’t get lightheaded off the polish, <sim’s name>. And be quick about it!

School – $31/hr, No Bonus, SuFSa, 6pm-10pm, Mood: Energized, Fitness 2

No School - $12/hr, No Bonus, Everyday, 9am-5pm, Mood: Energized, Fitness 2

Chance Card: You are delivering a sword to the blacksmith to be mended. He is enjoying his repast while keeping an eye on a pair of young scamps taking turns trying to lift his hammer. “Hail, <lad or lass>! Care fer a go?” he asks with mischief in his eyes, as he gestures at his hammer.

Piece of Cake!

Success (+2 Fitness): You lift it with ease. All that work hauling around swords and armor has paid off! +2 Confidence

Failure: It doesn’t budge. “That’s no ordinary hammer,” said the blacksmith, nearly laughing. “It’s an Angelshammer. It was years before I could wield it myself!” +2 embarrassed.

No, thanks.

“Yer a wise one, <lad or lass>.” No bonus.

2. Squire – You have been chosen as the personal servant of one of the Knights. Heaven knows why they took a liking to you, <sim’s name>, so you best mind your p’s and q’s!

School – $39/hr, Bonus $246, SuFSa, 6pm-10pm, Mood: Confident, Charisma 2 OR Mischief 2

No School - $14/hr, Bonus $245, Everyday, 9am-5pm, Mood: Confident, Charisma 2 OR Mischief 2

Chance Card: Mi’lord is lounging in a chair, after his evening repast. “Tell me a joke,” he says, bored.

Oh! That ribald one you overheard in the tavern the other day!

Success (+2 Charisma or Mischief): He laughs so hard, he clutches his side and wipes a tear from his eye. Pressing a gold coin in your hand, he gives you the rest of the night off. +$15, +2 Playful

Failure: Frowning, he asks where you heard something so obscene and sends you to the priest for punishment. You spend the night scrubbing floors. +2 Uncomfortable

Mi’lord would probably appreciate something clever.

Success (+2 Charisma, Mischief or Logic): “A most excellent jibe,” he says with a smirk. “I will watch your career with great interest.” +2 Focused

Failure: Mi’lord is offended! A day in the stocks for you! +2 Uncomfortable

3. Squire of Honor – Well, I never would have guessed that you would be given the, uh, honor of being the Squire of Honor! You’ll be assisting the Lord of the castle in all ceremonies and feasts, so mind you look sharp. It wouldn’t do for the Squire of Honor to look shabby.

School – $46/hr, Bonus $298, SuFSa, 6pm-10pm, Mood: Focused

No School - $16/hr, Bonus $304, Everyday, 9am-5pm. Mood: Focused

Chance Card: Today is the feast celebrating the marriage of your king to the queen of Effenmont. A hooded woman grabs your sleeve as you pass by. “I must see Mi’lord at once!” she says.

Of course, you’ll arrange it immediately.

Success (+3 Charisma): You temporarily stash the woman in a side room and bring Mi’lord to her, where they fight loudly, but away from prying eyes and ears. +2 Focused

Failure: “Stay put!” you tell her and run off to find the man in question, unknowingly leading her straight to him. She storms past you, dramatically removing her cloak and revealing her pregnancy to an entire castle and the guests from Effenmont. +2 Embarrassed

On a feast day?! Is she crazy?!

Success (+3 Mischief): You successfully give her the runaround all evening until she gives up and goes home. +2 playful

Failure: Objecting loudly, she cries, “How dare you treat a woman in my condition this way!” garnering the attention of everyone. A bystander has to step in and smooth things over for you. +2 Embarrassed

 Knight, Full Time Career

1. Knight of the Realm, 15/hr, no bonus, no pension, Everyday, 7am-5pm, Mood: Energized, Daily Task: Work Out, Fitness 1, Mischief 1 OR Charisma 1

2. Knight of the Realm, 20/hr, bonus $245, no pension, Everyday, 8am-5pm, Mood: Energized, Daily Task: Work Out, Fitness 2, Mischief 2 OR Charisma 2

3. Knight of the Realm, 27/hr, bonus $304, no pension, Everyday, 9am-5pm, Mood: Energized, Daily Task: Work Out, Fitness 3, Mischief 3 OR Charisma 3

4. Knight of the Realm, 38/hr, bonus $357, no pension, SuTuThSa, 9am-5pm, Mood: Energized, Daily Task: Work Out, Fitness 4, Mischief 4 OR Charisma 4

5. Knight of the Realm, 53/hr, bonus $544, no pension, MWF, 9am-5pm, Mood: Energized, Daily Task: Work Out, Fitness 5, Mischief 5 OR Charisma 5

Black Knight

6. Knight-Captain, 86/hr, Bonus $873, TuThSa, 4pm-10pm, Mood: Angry, Daily Task: Mean, Mischief 6, Fitness 6

7. Knight-Captain, 183/hr, Bonus $1280, MWF, 4pm-10pm, Mood: Angry, Daily Task: Mean, Mischief 8, Fitness 8

8. Commander, 242/hr, Bonus $2367, SuTuTh, 4pm-10pm, Mood: Angry, Daily Task: Mean, Mischief 9, Fitness 9

9. Commander, 368/hr, Bonus $3831, MWF, 4pm-10pm, Mood: Angry, Daily Task: Mean, Mischief 10, Fitness 10

10. Lord/Lady, 431/hr, Bonus $5078, TuTh, 4pm-8pm, Mood: Angry, Daily Task: Mean, Go to work

White Knight

6. Knight-Captain, 83/hr, Bonus $905, SuTuTh, 10am-4pm, Mood: Confident, Daily: Friendly, Charisma 6, Fitness 6

7. Knight-Captain, 112/hr, Bonus $1171, MWF, 10am-4pm, Mood: Confident, Daily: Friendly, Charisma 8, Fitness 8

8. Commander, 152/hr, Bonus $1546, TuThSa, 10am-4pm, Mood: Confident, Daily: Friendly, Charisma 9, Fitness 9

9. Commander, 226/hr, Bonus $2125, MWF, 10am-4pm, Mood: Confident, Daily: Friendly, Charisma 10, Fitness 10

10. Lord/Lady, 312/hr, Bonus $2880. SuSa, 10am-2pm, Mood: Confident, Daily: Friendly, go to work

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*Looking at the Laundry Day Pack*

Wow, this stuff is going to go great with the Cottage Garden Pack.

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I hope everyone had a merry Christmas. Mine kind of sucked. *shrugs* Anyway, this is a new save I started while I clean out my cc folder. Top is my sim seducing the neighbor, bottom left is her apartment and bottom right is the house I’m building for her. She’s a lounge singer (entertainer) and gardening enthusiast.

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You get five files in this download. First, I defiligreed (yes, it’s a verb now) EA’s Soulful Entrance and the other four are defiligreed versions of @peacemaker-ic’s Soulful Entrance Double Door and all the Soulful Entrance Arches. They come in all the original colors.

PC’s meshes are REQUIRED and you can get them here.

Download (no ad-fly): SimFileShare

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More awesome houses that could be fun to build.

Victorian Style Houses 

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some building inspo for halloween if you’re looking for any.

Compilation of creepy victorian houses 

More victorian houses 

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Small wip for a build I’m doing. It’s an interior open porch area/sort of alcove that looks into an indoor pool.

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Creator name: Aflutter

Blog url: http://aflutters-simblr.tumblr.com/

Games you create for: TS4

What you create: Mostly build items, walls especially

So… here’s a little idea I’ve been toying with lately. As you guys already know, my computer got infected and hacked due to downloading some CC that was behind Ad.fly links. I lost my Netflix account to hackers and seriously risked losing my PayPal account, too. Needless to say, I won’t be touching an Ad.fly link (or other similar service) with a 10-foot pole from now on.

However, here’s the thing: I don’t know about you, but I have a feeling that finding cc that is not hidden behind a paywall or an Ad.fly link lately is becoming harder and harder.

And this is why I’d like to start an “Ad-free Creators United” project, a database/cc finds blog to make it easier for everyone to find creations that are NOT hidden behind an Ad.fly or Patreon link. To do this, however, I’ll need the help of a few fellow simmers, aka… YOU!

What are you looking for? TS2, TS3 and TS4 players who are willing to help me hunt down FREE custom content for sims games and help me keep the cc finds blog updated.

What does “free” content mean? Any cc creation that is NOT hidden behind an Ad.fly, Shorte.st or Patreon link.

Will this be something like Paysites Must Be Destroyed? Nope. The blog will be solely dedicated to promoting creations that are shared for free (with no Ad.fly or Patreon links) by their original creators. Basically, it’ll be just a cc finds blog for free creations. No re-uploading of pay content.

How do I participate? Send me an ask or a message if you’re willing to help me with the finds blog. Please, only send me your message if you’re ACTUALLY willing to work on this. If you don’t have enough time and/or are unsure on whether you can work on the blog itself, you are encouraged to reblog this post and spread the word around.

Fine, I want to take part to this. How many people do you need? For now, I’ll need:

2 persons to take care of TS2 cc finds;

1 person to take care of TS3 cc finds (I’ll be the other person :D);

2 persons to take care of TS4 cc finds;

Last but not least…

Are you a creator who doesn’t use Ad.fly? Get your name added to the database! If you’re a creator and you’re sharing your creations for free, please reblog this post and fill in the following form:

Creator name: [your name]

Blog url: [the blog where you share your sims creations]

Games you create for: [a list of the sims game/s you create cc for]

What you create: [CAS, furniture, objects, retextures, mods, traits, retextures, recolors, mesh conversions, new meshes? List anything you usually create for here]

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The GreenBoat, a facade-only build by me, Aflutter, has been posted to the gallery.

This is a 30x20 lot; it’s listed as a National Park, but of course you can change it to whatever you want. I was originally going to make it a retail greenhouse, but decided to post it as a facade-only build, so that people can turn it into whatever they want. Besides being a greenhouse or community garden, it could make a neat restaurant, bar, wedding venue or even a cool residential lot for a botanist.

There are two pieces of custom content on this lot (one of them by me), but I’m not listing or linking them. I haven’t been posting any of my builds lately because I can’t build without cc, but the thought of making sure I link everything correctly has been stressing me out. From now on, I will only be listing cc that I consider essential to the build. For this particular lot, there isn’t anything that I consider essential. Remember to check the cc box in the gallery’s sidebar.

Also, if anyone decides to furnish this, you are welcome to post it to the gallery or here on tumblr. Just remember to mention that I built the facade and if you tag me, I will reblog it. This is true for all my facade-only builds.

(One last note - after I took these pictures, I decided to change which swatch I used for the fence, from the brown with gold to just plain brown, so the pictures aren’t exactly the same as the final product.)

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UPDATE: Tin Man’s Nightmare Floor

I wasn’t very satisfied with this floor when I released it, but I didn’t know how to improve it. So, what I’ve done is I’ve changed the specular, made small, medium and large checked tiles and made rivet and no rivet versions of the four metals (bronze, silver, gold and copper) for a total of 72 swatches. I was going to update the original post, but I wanted to show off these pics because they look pretty nice and to show what changes I made. The download link below goes to the folder. Just drop the file into your mods folder and let it overwrite the original file.

Download: SimFileShare

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Wow! I woke up to a ton of likes today! This seriously made my day! Thanks everyone!

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Look what I made, lol. It’s a box. *laughs some more* I have a problem, haha. And I can’t decide if I care or not. :D Haha, I’m in a weird mood.

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Doing a little updating in my science lab.

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Tin Man’s Nightmare Wall and Floor

I had too many previews, so this isn’t even all of the color combos. Basically, there are three trims - brown, gray and yellow. There are four metals - gold, silver, copper and bronze. There are four industrial metal parts - brown, blue, green and purple. All the color combos come to 48 swatches, plus there is one desaturated version. That’s for the wall. There are four floor swatches; they come in the metal colors. These will look good in airships, science labs, greenhouses and treasure vaults. Recolors welcome.

Tin Man’s Nightmare Wall: Base game compatible, find in Paneling, 14 simoleons.

Tin Man’s Nightmare Floor: Base game compatible, find in Metals, 4 simoleons.

TOU: 1. Please give me credit; 2. Don’t reupload behind a pay wall or link shortener; 3. Follow rules one and two and you can do whatever you want with it.

Download: SimFileShare