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actual heart eyes

The Goths, photographed at their apartment in the Arts District, San Myshuno 🏙️

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At first I just downloaded Language Barriers...

Now I've made naming rules for all the worlds.

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me: i’m getting close to being finished with my save file!!

also me: let’s make all the stardew valley villagers in their DSV and vanilla versions in sims!!!

i’m never going to finish this file, folks

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A few more Dragon Age characters from Artbreeder.

Top is Nathaniel Howe, bottom is Anora.

(In Eimhir’s story, Anora marries Alistair and remains Queen. Eimhir and Alistair attempt to keep a relationship, but it ultimately fails and Eimhir eventually finds herself startlingly close to the son of the man who destroyed her family.)

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Made my DA characters on Artbreeder the other day, inspired by @recoveryghost :)

From the top, Eimhir Cousland, Marian Hawke, and Renata Trevelyan

(Marian has a nevus flammeus/port wine stain that I could not get to work on artbreeder - it goes across her nose like the blood swipe from the game)

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Townie Makeover Savefile

I have been receiving a few requests to release my townie makeovers as a savefile so people wanting to use them in a new save won’t have to place them all manually.

I’m happy to do that, but cannot stress enough that this is not a savefile in the classic sense - it’s just a shortcut to placing townies. I did not touch about 95% of the buildings. They are just as EA left them. (uninhabitable and useless 🤣)

Useful infomation:

All the townies are cc free.

All the townies can be found on the gallery under OpheliaNygmos

Link to the official townie makeover thread

I still need to do the makeovers for the Eco Lifestyle and Snow Escape sims.

Link to my youtube video discussing the makeovers.

Installation:

This is a save file and not a mod. The file is called Slot_00000400.save and goes in your saves folder. (Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Saves).

Please back up your saves before installing it and make sure you don’t already have one with this number.

Download:

MediaFire // SimFileShare (no ads)

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i forgot how flat and creepy the vanilla eyes are 😱

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I *love* the backstories here!

senior dump pt 1.

ELDER SIMS DESERVE LOVE. How could I say something so controversial yet brave?  After seven whole years, we have yet to see any improvement in our generational sims (object babies, u there?) Alas, it is unlikely we will see change anytime soon. SO I decided to try my best to create elders that I would want to play with, who still have aspirations and goals in their golden years.

Preet Ravi, elder she/her, bisexual Aspiration: master maker (1 of 4) Traits: freegan, maker, cheerful Reward Traits: high metabolism, morning sim Lifestyle: health nut

A lifelong hippie, Preet is happiest when holding a cup of organic green tea and eating kale by the handful. She’s the lady with the healing crystals, insisting that your chakras are out of balance and that your destiny is to marry a Libra. Her hobbies include interpretive dance, palm reading and ear candling. She’s a free bird, unburdened by societal norms and expectations. You go Preet.

more info + download below

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realized i was using butterish on like 98% of my sims, so time to switch up defaults

butterish; default version.

all genders, toddler to elder

uses @luumia​‘s vanilla default skin!

uses @simulationcowboy​‘s landline wrinkles for adult & elder

check out the nondefault version!

UPDATE 10.07.2020: fixed for october patch!

download  — sfs / patreon (free)

@maxismatchccworld​ @simblrcollective​ @mmfinds​

body & age previews under the cut!

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I'd love to see your take on Cullen's recovery arc as an alternative analysis! I feel like we're only ever presented with the two options of: "he needs to atone!" Or "he was a victim that needs protection!", neither of which I've ever fully agreed with. I think it's a result of the lack of attention given to his arc in DAI, which leaves a ton of room for interpretation, and results in people swaying towards either camp depending on how sympathetic they are towards him and his history.

I totally agree with this. 

The problem with the way Cullen is presented in DAI is that he’s presented in an unambiguously positive light, and as @tokutenshi pointed out in this post (which I do agree with) if your Hawke was hostile to him you don’t get some of his dialogue about questioning Meredith. Additionally if you side with the mages rather than the templars Cullen has some realizations about the Order that you’re not going to hear. It’s too little too late for a lot of people, though I would also argue with what tokutenshi said, he was severely traumatized after the Blight (if you take a female mage Warden in the tower during the Witch Hunt DLC you will get lines that indicate he is suffering from PTSD, notice the lines about him being “twitchy” and “jumpy”) Personally I think we can find a middle ground between Cullen being a victim of manipulation and indoctrination, someone who suffered after experiencing trauma, and someone who works hard in the moment to do some good, whether we can or should call it “atonement” or not. That being said, he does acknowledge in Inquisition that the war against Corypheus is his chance to atone, and he works overtime to the point where it’s commented upon by several characters including the Inquisitor how hard he works.  

By the time we meet Cullen in Inquisition a couple of years have passed since the chantry’s explosion. This is where I will be critical of the writing because I do think the game should have better established what exactly Cullen was doing in the time in between, though we get bits and clues from dialogue if you pay attention: He served as Kirkwall’s knight Commander after Meredith died, and he and presumably Aveline’s guard worked to basically repair the city, as Rylen says in Griffon Wing Keep that there was a lot of rubble, a lot of people without homes. Cassandra noticed Cullen’s work and recruited him to the Inquisition. (Also, keep in mind that the Inquisition was originally going to help quell the worst excess of the mage and templar fighting, restore order because the chantry lost control. Then the conclave happened, it went boom, and suddenly the Inquisition’s purpose became far greater than anyone would have expected. So Cullen as Cassandra’s choice of Commander makes total sense to me, considering he was a former templar and bringing him in basically acted as a symbol to any wayward templar, letting them know that there could be another way. But I digress on that part, haha.) 

I *think* some people are dissatisfied with Cullen’s “redemption” arc in DAI because we don’t really see him fall on the sword or beat himself up for his past. There’s also no moment where he like, faces a mage he maybe knew in Kirkwall or has to deal with the mages not trusting him. Obviously of course there is nuance there as well as Toku and I mentioned--he wasn’t allowed to heal as much as he should have before being shipped to Meredith. However, here’s an interesting bit of dialogue you can get if you pick the right options after Perseverance if you tell him he doesn’t need lyrium:

Quiz: The man you were. You can’t pretend like he never existed.

Cullen: Not even if I wanted to. But I’m here now. I can make that mean something.

Cullen knows he screwed up. What’s more, he doesn’t want to forget he screwed up. But he lives in the moment to make things right. Blackwall’s arc actually shows him falling on the sword and wanting to atone, versus with Cullen it’s implied he has come to terms with his screw ups off screen. He doesn’t continuously beat himself up, he does what he can for the Inquisition to the point where if the Quiz tells him to go back on lyrium for the better of his soldiers, he does, knowing it just may kill him. There is also limited dialogue that challenges his views which turns some people off, but I know for my Inquisitor she’s very much about the now and what they both can do in the now. I won’t blame anyone who wants to be able to challenge him more, but frankly I find the fact he doesn’t continuously fall on the sword or beat himself up interesting. 

All that being said, I do think of his arc as more of one of recovery versus redemption. And to be frank I’m kind of critical of the term “redemption” and what makes good redemption arcs or not. Someone having a “redemption arc” seems to imply that there’s only one road to the top of the mountain when maybe redemption is something you should always strive for? But as for the “recovery” arc: the chantry, IMO, purposely devoids both mages and templars of a personhood or life outside the order and Circle and treats them as objects. Many templar recruits are children and are basically indoctrinated to believe they serve the Maker and they are needed and that they do the Maker’s will. There’s an interesting bit of dialogue you can get if your character is a warrior and talks to Cullen about the templar spec, basically if the Quiz says “templars serve the Maker, I’d do the same.” Cullen basically replies, “uh, yeah, that’s not going to make you righteous, believe me,” implying this was the way he once indoctrinated to think, but he no longer believes it so. Templars are given lyrium for their abilities, but also to placate them, something Alistair says in DAO. 

After Kirkwall Cullen sees where the Order is going, gets an offer from Cassandra and decides that if he removes the “part that kept [him] chained,” he would find his own purpose again. (He says this is your Quiz makes him take lyrium.) In Inquisition we learn he always wanted to protect people. (Our local mind reader Cole says “some templars want to only protect, like Cullen” if you ask him about templars.) And as a kid living in rural nowhere Ferelden, he saw the templars as protectors. Why I interpret his arc as more about recovery than redemption all has to do with Perseverance and the way you as the player can handle it: You can either let him know he can start over, he can endure and one day find a life of his own away from duty and battle, or you can make him take it and thus let him remain indoctrinated to what the chantry taught him, that there is nothing outside of duty and battle. It comes down between a choice of “you are leashed to what the chantry made you till you die” to “you are more and you can recover and make your own life,” which he does do by Tresspasser, romance or not. At the end of the game if you keep him off lyrium he basically thanks the Inquisitor for giving him a chance, letting him know he could be more. Additionally, a lyrium free Cullen in Tresspasser speaks of meeting his siblings again, developing a relationship. If you make him take it forever he refuses to see them. 

I could also see the arc as one of faith, and finding it again. If you keep him off lyrium the prayer in the chantry he speaks is one of quiet reassurance and finding strength through his faith, but if you make him take it the prayer is “blessed are the peacekeepers” and it’s uttered desperately as if he is trying to believe it. He also mourns how far he fell. All this to say that I find it very interesting his writer focused his personal quest around the lyrium and what lyrium represents rather than say, him meeting a mage who lived in Kirkwall or something and him trying to atone to them.  

When I wrote my post about why Cullen gets so much fandom related wank I got a lot of different responses that echoed the same thing about Cullen’s arc not getting a lot of attention. I think there is a lot of good writing there with his personal quest,  but his writing doesn’t fill in every single gap---not to mention people are going to have vastly different experiences on how they played the games till Inquisition. And my examples of dialogue are things you may not get if you don’t pick the right options. And heck, some people only have played Inquisition. 

So, I think me calling his arc in Inquisition a recovery arc has partially been not me trying to justify why I like him, but analyze a differing way a character who has screwed up in the past is written. Blackwall’s arc is a true redemption arc IMO. Cullen’s isn’t so clear cut as a redemption arc, but at the end of the day it is truly about him finding his own purpose again, which leads me to lean more toward calling it a “recovery arc.”

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Loving this gorgeous skinblend lately!

butterish.

my first skinblend. i made like two before this and they stayed in my drafts for a year…but im finally satisfied with this one. something simple, clean, and smooth.

non default skinblend

only 1 swatch, nothing else

2 slots: forehead, mouth crease

preview photos

download — sfs / google

credit: @pyxiidis, @litttlecakes, @faaeish, @kismet-sims, @heihu, @sammmi-xox, @viiavi

@mmfinds @maxismatchccworld @simblrcollective

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oh no I apparently removed some CC sliders and now poor Candy Behr has pointy shoulders! 😱

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Nolan-Sims here.

This overlay includes 4 freckle variations; each including a full body, face only or body only option. They can be used by Toddlers through Elders. I hope you’ll enjoy!

Download | Donate 🌷

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I made these a while ago and never released them because I planned to eventually make more … but that didn’t happen so I figured I’d just upload what I have lol They’re nothing fancy, just some subtle freckles and moles. Three different variations and each has two options; face only and face + body.

Hopefully you guys can get some use out of them too =D

Download on my Blogger!

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Congratulations to one of my favorite simblr creators!! 💜💛💜

⭐🎉25k+ flash Giveaway: win an EP, GP, or SP🎉🥳

SO. A little while ago we actually hit 25k which is. wild. I know I haven’t ever really done milestones since…. ever 😅 I’ve always felt a little awkward talking about these things (yesyes, I’m a weirdo, I know). Not to get too deep into it but I struggle a lot with perfectionism and feelings of self doubt, and used to worry that people would send me hate, and then I just felt awkward because, well, I’d skipped every other milestone up until then lmao. In other words I am sometimes guilty of overthinking shit, and that ends now. Stop. Now we celebrate, because you guys are epic and there’s actually 27k of you!! WHAT!!

👀👀So what’s happening?👀👀 I’m giving away two gifts; one for tumblr, one for twitter. Just follow the rules above and you can win ANY single Sims 4 Expansion, Game Pack, OR Stuff Pack of your choice. Name the pack, I will get it for you. The same person can’t win both prizes, but if you do participate on both platforms you’ll double your chances. ^^

Just FYI: this giveaway is not sponsored or endorsed by anyone, it’s all me.

Last but definitely not least: A HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who’ve gathered around and more importantly stuck around hehe after all these years. I don’t really have the words, but just know that I appreciate it so much. 💛💚💙💜Thank you💜💙💚💛

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stardew valley sims 4 generations challenge.

a sims 4 challenge by @chellplays

           this is a twelve generation challenge for all of the marriage candidates from concernedape’s stardew valley.  this challenge is completely base game compatible with optional challenges for dlc. use the tag #svs4 or tag #chellplays if you would like me to see your gameplay.

          usual rules apply, meaning no cheats that give you an unfair advantage. your sims do not have to look or be named after the characters in each generation. do whatever you like!

generation 1: abigail.

    you were raised with humble upbringings. your dad ran a general store, while your mom was best at complaining about your “alternative lifestyle.” you left home looking to start a life free of rules and parents, and with 20 000 simoleons in your pocket, you settled down in a new city.

traits: music lover, loves outdoors, geek (alternatively, cats & dogs dlc: cat lover). aspiration: the curator. career: entertainer, musician branch.

goals:

have one “quirky” trait, appearance-wise (e.g. unnatural hair color).

obtain at least five points in the video game skill. 

complete the frog collection.

have two best friends, and marry one of them.

befriend a ghost. alternatively, with the vampires dlc, befriend a vampire.

cats & dogs dlc: own a cat named david jr.

have at least two children.

generation 2: emily. 

    you’re just working at the bar to make ends meet… but your real passion is tailoring. you make your clothes from scratch.

traits: cheerful, music lover, good (alternatively, get together dlc: dance machine; city living dlc: vegetarian). aspiration: freelance botanist. career: culinary, mixologist branch.

must live in the same house as your sibling.

make a best friend with a sim who lives in another city/world.

grow your own garden. you like your meals organic.

decorate your house with clothing racks. you love fashion.

complete the elements collection.

develop max affinity with another sim in both the green and pink bars, have two or more children with them, then “ask just to be friends.” 

never marry.

generation 3: sam.

    you are an outgoing, friendly sim who is brimming with youthful energy. you play guitar and drums, and want to start a band as soon as you have enough songs together. however, you do have a habit of starting ambitious projects and not finishing them.

traits: music lover, outgoing, ambitious. aspiration: musical genius. career: entertainer, musician branch.

must not be the youngest child. live with your younger sibling(s) until they are old enough to move out. have a good relationship with them.

have a strained relationship with your father (if not applicable, with any one parent).

have a job as a part-time retail employee as a teen.

max out the guitar skill.

reach the job of the entertainer career.

become best friends with two other entertainers.

obtain at least five points in the video game skill.

be married twice, and have one child with each spouse.

generation 4: sebastian.

    you are a rebellious loner who lives in your parents’ basement. you tend to get deeply absorbed in computer games, comic books, and sci-fi novels, and will sometimes spend great lengths of time pursuing these hobbies alone in your room. you can be a bit unfriendly to people you don’t know.

traits: loner, geek, bookworm. aspiration: computer whiz. career: tech guru, either branch.

have a negative relationship with your half-sibling and step-parent.

live in the basement of your parents’ house.

reach at least level 5 of the tech guru career before marriage.

max out the video gaming skill.

reach the top of the tech guru career.

only have one child, with whom you have a strained relationship.

eventually let your relationship with your spouse deteriorate and subsequently get a divorce. 

generation 5: penny.

    you live with your mom in a little trailer. while your mom is out carousing at the bar, you quietly tends to your chores in the dim, stuffy room you are forced to call home. you is shy and modest, without any grand ambitions for life other than settling in and starting a family. she likes to cook (although your skills are questionable) and read books from the local library.

traits: family-oriented, bookworm, neat. aspiration: big happy family (alternatively, parenthood dlc: super parent). career: none.

live with your mother (if not applicable, any one parent), with whom you have a negative relationship.

you must cook for your parent and clean the house every day.

live in a trailer-esque house. you are by no means wealthy.

both you and your parent may not have jobs.

marry the first person you fall in love with.

your spouse is the only one who may bring in any income, while you are a stay at home mom. earning money from writing, etc. is optional.

own a luxury pool at some point in your life.

generation 6: harvey.

    you’re a little old for a bachelor, but you have a kind heart and a respected position in the community. you live in a small apartment, but spend most of your time working. there’s a sense of sadness about you.

traits: genius, foodie, good (alternative, get together dlc: dance machine). aspiration: successful lineage. career: astronaut, space ranger track (alternatively, get to work dlc: doctor).

never date throughout your teens or young adulthood. focus on your career instead. get married only as an adult.

own a coffee machine. drink coffee as much as possible.

go jogging at least three times a week.

set up a reading garden in your backyard.

alternatively, city living dlc: live in an apartment.

have at least two children. having spent most of your life single, you want to have a comfortably sized family asap. 

generation 7: haley.

    being wealthy and popular throughout high school has made you a little conceited and self-centered. you have a tendency to judge people for superficial reasons. but is it too late for you to discover a deeper meaning to life? is there a fun, open-minded young person hidden within that shell?

traits: materialistic, snob, outgoing. aspiration: fabulously wealthy (alternatively, city living dlc: city native). career: none.

become enemies with your sibling(s) as a teenager.

max out the photography skill.

you may only get a career after you are married, and you must follow the same career path as your spouse. they opened your mind and inspired you to have interests beyond shopping.

earn at least three points in charisma, so you may donate to online charities after you are married.

bake a cake for every birthday that comes around.

grow a flower garden.

become friends with your sibling(s) again after you are married.

generation 8: elliot.

   you live alone in a cabin. you are a writer who dreams of one day writing a magnificent novel. you are a sentimental “romantic” with a tendency to go off onto flowery, poetic tangents. when you can afford it, you enjoy a strong beverage at the bar.

traits: romantic, bookworm, loner. aspiration: bestselling author. career: writer, author branch.

live in a cabin-esque house.

obtain at least five points in the piano skill.

own a small garden.

specialize in romance books and poetry. later, you may also specialize in sci fi or mystery novels.

write love emails to your love interest at least once a week.

generation 9: leah.

    you love to spend time outside, foraging for a wild meal or simply enjoying the gifts of the season. you’re a talented artist with a large portfolio of work… yet you’re too nervous to display it to the public.

traits: art lover, loves outdoors, foodie. aspiration: painter extraordinaire. career: none (painter, later on).

date only one person in your young adulthood and have a child with them, but never marry. your partner is unsupportive of your artistic lifestyle and encourages you to “get a real job.” whether you choose to get a traditional career, that is not as a painter, is up to you.

eventually marry the love of your life as an adult: someone who is supportive of your art. if you did choose a career, quit and take up a career as a painter.

have at least one child with your new spouse.

harvest wild fruits, vegetables, etc. on weekends.

grow an excellent apple tree.

reach maximum painting skill, and paint at least 5 masterpieces.

city living dlc: attend a flea market and sell your art.

generation 10: maru.

    you acquired a passion for creating gadgets at a young age. when you aren’t in your room, fiddling with tools and machinery, you sometime do odd jobs at the local hospital.

traits: ambitious, outgoing, geek. aspiration: nerd brain. career: astronaut, space ranger branch (alternatively, get to work dlc: doctor or scientist).

have a negative relationship with your half-sibling.

max out the handiness skill.

max out the logic skill.

upgrade at least five objects.

own a rocket ship.

your sim’s partner must be friends with your father (if not applicable, with either parent) before you can become engaged.

eventually, your relationship with your spouse becomes strained and you break up. you die as soon as your eldest child is a young adult.

get to work dlc: get abducted by aliens.

generation 11: alex. 

     you love sports. you are quite arrogant and brag to everyone that you are going to be a professional athlete. is your cockiness just a facade to mask your crushing self-doubt? are you using your sports dream to fill the void left by the disappearance of your parents? 

traits: bro, active, mean (alternatively, cats & dogs dlc: dog lover).  aspiration: bodybuilder. career: athlete, professional athlete branch.

goals: 

become enemies with your father, but have had a very close relationship with your mother. 

begin dating in your teens and go on at least three dates with three different people.

do not marry until you are in the later stages of young adulthood. you’re marrying your soulmate, someone who stuck with you despite your arrogance.

max out the athletic skill.

reach level 10 of the athlete career track.

cats & dogs dlc: own a dog named dusty.

generation 12: shane.

     you are often rude and unhappy, and suffer from depression and alcohol dependence. however, your attitude starts to change towards your spouse. after work you frequently spend your evenings at the bar. if you could reset your life maybe you’d start a chicken farm. only free-range eggs of course.

traits: lazy, gloomy, mean.  aspiration: master mixologist. career: culinary, mixologist branch.

have a career as a retail worker as a teen.

go to the bar after work every day.

only get married as an adult. 

after marriage, quit your job as a mixologist and choose a different career path. you’ve been encouraged by your spouse to give up alcohol.

after marriage, start a garden. 

have a maximum of two children.

cats & dogs dlc: adopt a pet named charlie.

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