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Her name was Thetis, and she was the first being Aegir had ever encountered, apart from his mother, who was like him.

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Aegir's days were consumed by an unending series of chores. Despite his deep love for his parents, he often felt they couldn't truly understand him. His father, a full-blooded human, could never truly understand the nature of Aegir's burdens.

His mother, Marina, who shared his affliction, had grown increasingly anxious with age. The weight of her fear kept her from the ocean during the day; she would only venture into its depths at night, to avoid the risk of being exposed for what she was.

But one day, Aegir could no longer bear the confinement. The pull of the sea called to him with an undeniable force. With a final glance at his parents, he threw himself into the waves.

Beneath the surface, everything felt as it should—weightless, serene, and in perfect harmony.

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I have been playing some without updating and currently it is round 15. Marvin Angler moved to the military camp, which he left to marry Crystal Digger. Aegir, the youngest son and merboy, is the only Angler child still at home. He grew up to teen.

Aegir has started hanging out with with the merchant youngsters in the coustal province, the twins Vidar and Vimar Sydport, and Jennyver Russ. It is not easy to be different. His friends are richer and it's not likely they'll want to hang out with a fisherman, like Aegir, when they grow up

Vidar dared them to swim in the harbor. Aegir knew what would happen if he got into the water. His mother had warned him to never let anyone outside the family know what he really is.

Vimar mocked him for not knowing how to swim, Vidar suggested that Aegir was afraid because the water was cold, Jennyver giggled.

Aegir wished he could show the haughty rich friends who can really swim like a fish in water. The problem was that he would really become like a fish if he ended up in water. He would be an outcast forever if anyone knew.

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I probably follow most of you already! I just want more historical themed Simblrs to follow because I love looking at the pictures and we’re such a niche little group :D

Anything pre 1980s is good!

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IMPORTANT: TUMBLR HAS MADE A DEAL WITH MIDJOURNEY/OPENAI.

YOUR ART AND IMAGES ON TUMBLR ARE BEING USED TO TRAIN AI MODELS.

The opt-in is automatic, but you can turn it off in settings.

Go to "Blog Settings" -> "Visibility" -> "Third-Party Sharing" and turn on "Prevent third-party sharing for [blog]". (This post shows how to do it on browser and on mobile.) You need to do this with every sideblog. (Note: The option in settings might not appear if your app hasn't updated yet. You can still opt out via browser.)

Spread the word. Everyone on Tumblr needs to know about this.

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The triplets are socialising while their big brother works.

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Founder family, Haj (Shark) Under the sea. They are a family of 5 siblings, from left to right, Forkys, Thalassa, Thetis, Manannan, and Neilos. Under the sea is a subhood to my main hood, Wiikstad.

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Hey Tumblrverse, I'm back on my medieval folder optimization at the moment and recently had the fun of messing around with the prison mod by Inge Jones, which sadly did not suit my medieval game vibes... at all. So, I remeshed it! 😁

The items I have changed are pictured here. I have also changed the food which prisoners are fed, from a strange clone of the Maxis Instant Meal cans, to a chicken leg from Sun & Moon's Medieval Munchies set (FILE NOT INCLUDED as per Sun & Moon's TOU, please download separately). Thank you to @klaartjesimblr for the help figuring out how to do that! New textures for the area controllers were done by me. New meshes were borrowed from a variety of sources: Prisoner Token: Wall Chain from ATS2 Area Controller: Percyvell Wall Torch by Lama at the Medieval Smithy Staff Controller: Hanging Papers by Sunni (Wizards Tower Set) Prison Controller: TSM shield by Decat Prisoner Tag: Ball & Chain by hriveresse (Dungeon Mod)

I take zero credit for these lovely meshes and have liberally used them for my own purposes. If I have violated anyone's TOU please message me and I will remove this upload and just enjoy for my own purposes. You will still need the rest of the Prison mod by Inge for these items to work as intended. For my edits, hit the button below! DOWNLOAD

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accountability update/Best Practice Preview

Making the charts and graphs to finally make it clear how ridiculous we all are is taking a bit more time than expected because there is a subset of users that both does and doesn't have pink flashing, and since all insights happen at the margins, I have to dig into this a bit more. Release now expected the first weekend in February.

But: as proof I'm moving along, here's a title card, and the simplest main takeaway from the survey:

IF YOU HAVE "uint LotSkirtIncrease" in your userstartup.cheat, you can safely delete it to help reduce pink flashing.

Explanation: "uint LotSkirtIncrease 36" is equivalent to the in-game "Lot View Distance Extra Large" setting. It was previously thought that it was needed to turn this up to 120 in order to see neighborhood horizons in lot view but is not true (or not true anymore). If your horizon is blinking in or out when your game camera moves, it is not from view distance, it is from graphical glitching - same as if you've ever noticed the reflections momentarily not lining up in Voeille's water when you change the angle.

Having a LotSkirtIncrease over 50 SUBSTANTIALLY burdens the game at a critical stress point: loading any lot. It also overrides your in-game setting so if you were under the impression your setting was Small, Medium, or Large (and some of you were), it was actually Extra-Extra-Extra-Large unless you manually changed it after entering the lot.

Corollary: THE BEST PRACTICE FOR LOT LOADING, i.e., the Lot View Settings Juggling Method (LVSJM)

If you are prone to pink flashing, you should always exit lots (including when you exit the game) with Lot View Distance set to "Small" and Neighbors turned "Off." You may want to save with the game camera zoomed in as far as possible.

When you load a lot and have ascertained it is stable (you can pan the camera without any hiccups/lag/crashing), after 30 seconds, you can turn neighbors back on. 30 seconds later, you can start incrementally turning up the Lot View Distance.

Credit for this tip goes to the users who gave a hot tip on the survey that they only turn Neighbors on for screenshots (they will be named in the final report). We are often prone to thinking of those settings as something static, that we set and forget, but if we treat them as dynamic we can definitely manipulate them to our advantage.

Remember, after playing the lot - OR WHEN YOUR SIMS TRAVEL FROM THE LOT - you should turn the Lot View settings back down and manually save BEFORE the game closes the lot.

IF YOU STILL HAVE PINK FLASHING ON FIRST LOT LOAD/HOOD EXIT, there is further help for you coming in the report, but I don't have time to write it all up now. It's not not complicated but I went from total pink every hood load to virtually none (though I am not immune to crashing) using a combination of all the best practices I will be recommending in the report, and other users saw improvement to overall play session quality and length as well.

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RIP, CmarNYC

I’m very sad to report that Sims 3 and 4 creator CmarNYC passed away in October 2023. For 15 years, Simmers benefited from Cmar’s long-honed computing skills as she created much-loved modders’ and players’ tools, including the Sims 3 and 4 MorphMakers and Skininators, the TS4 SimRipper, the Sims 3 XCAS core mod, and many CAS sliders. She was also a contributor to S4PE, which likely was used by creators you rely on. Without Cmar’s work, the Sims franchise would have had a much less rich array of mods and custom content. She will be greatly missed.

As well as Sims, Cmar loved cats, and donations are suggested to the ASPCA, the TinyKittens Society, or an animal-related charity near you.

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These fins were made for swimming - modified TS4 mermaid tails

These tails are modified from Hat’s and Magical Girl Sandbox´s straight fins. They are whole body meshes, and not separates as the originals. I also removed the small fins on the side because I wanted a more streamlined silhuette.

Credits: Meduza and Gryning for converting the mermaid meshes from TS4 and for conversion of the BlueWhite texture from TS4. Almighty hat and Magical Girl Sandbox for the straight fins. Meshy for parts of the alpha. Sherahbim for the texture for the Maiden of the sea, and parts of the alpha. Free mermaid scale texture overlay by brgfx of Freepik.

As the title hints, the tails are suitable for swimming, but not for walking on the ground.  Straight fins will clip through the floor, but why would mermaids walk anyway. I play my mermaids with Midge the Tree's mermaid mod where they change to tails in the water, so I made the tails to match my own gameplay.

They come in recolors to match Midge the Tree's scale overlays, blue, pink, green, purple and silver. In addition I added the blue-white TS4 texture, gold, and black. For females there are also two recolors of Sherabihms Maiden of the sea, one with the original bra and one with scales instead. Children also get the same recolor but only on the tail. The gills on some of the ingame pictures are not part of the textures but an overlay.

Category: swim

Ages: Children (unigender), teens and adults. Adults are enabled for young adults to elders

Body shapes: Maxis, CPU (Classic pinup), LBB (lean body builder). CPU and LBB are only for adults

Shoesound is off and fins for teens and up have all morphs and are also flagged for maternity. Children have fat morphs.

From left to right;  am Silver, Lbb Gold, Lbb BlueWhite, Lbb alpha on the back.

From left to right: af Maiden of the sea, af Maiden of the sea alternative; af blue; afCPU green.

From left to right;  tf Pink; tf BlueWhite; child Purple

Download:

Adult female

Adult male

Teen female

Teen male

Child (unigender)

CPU

LBB

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The house feels empty with the mermaids gone. Marvin misses his twin sister Marnia and starts to think that his future may not be as a fisher. As much as he loves his younger brother Aegir, he cannot share the interests of a merboy. Maybe he could join the army like his brother Ossian, and his father Rasmus before him? Rasmus left the army when he married Marina and is not very much in favor of his son following that career. Another option for Marvin could be to become a servant in an affluent family. Meanwhile Marina is dreaming of the world under the sea.

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Aegir grew up and Marina showed him a whole new world.

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It was the first day of autumn in the coustal province and Marina Angler went for a swim in the ocean.

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On the last day of the trip they met some tourists at the temple in old Uppsala and in Birka

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Next stop was hotel Valhalla.

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The default for the tour guide was fine but the first version of the default bellhop had to be fixed.