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[tiasunshine-reblogs]

You guys asked for it and I was happy to oblige !!! I finally got around to building this Sims 2 eclectic & cozy residential cottage as a match to the Paris Café & Bakery. It was quite a challenge to build a home that had the coziness of a small witches cottage, while still maintaining a mix of modern & Parisian elements. But here we are and its perfect!

Open concept kitchen and dining.

View from the living room.

Master bedroom.

Backyard patio, perfect for gardening and grilling.

At last here it is, two builds later, and I think I did a wonderful job! With this open floor concept you can still have that small cottage look, with out it actually feeling like a small cramped cottage. There is plenty of space to entertain, read, and smustle with other sims. The addition of the backyard patio gives you a nice area to garden, grill, and even do some yoga.

Download it Here: Cozy Cottage Video Walkthrough: Cozy Cottage

From your sim, Tia Sunshine. XOXO

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[triamond12]

Told by the Colonel: A Matrimonial Romance

W. L. Alden

PART 3

Old man Smith conducted the case on his side, and a lawyer named Starkweather, who is now a member of the Illinois Legislature, appeared for Josiah Wilson.

Colonel Smith argued that while the parson who conducted the alleged marriage ceremony could undoubtedly have married a couple in the State of Indiana, he could not marry a woman in Indiana to a man in Illinois, for the reason that the man and the woman could not be in the same place while they were in two different commonwealths, and that hence Josiah and Melinda had not legally appeared together before the officiating minister.

Furthermore, he argued that the minister at the time of the pretended marriage was standing neither in Indiana nor in Illinois, but on the boundary line; that the statute defined the boundary line as 'an imaginary line' running from such and such a point to such and such a point, and that a minister who stands in a purely imaginative locality stands virtually nowhere, and hence cannot perform any function of his calling.

"On the other hand, Josiah's lawyer claimed that the minister had married Melinda Smith in the State of Indiana; that consequently she must have been married to somebody, and that that somebody was unquestionably Josiah Wilson. As to the point that the minister stood in an imaginary locality because, as was alleged, he stood on the boundary line, the lawyer maintained that it was a physical impossibility that a minister weighing two hundred and fifty pounds could stand in a purely imaginative place.

Moreover, he was prepared to prove that, while performing the ceremony, at least one of the minister's feet was in the State of Indiana, which was sufficient to make him legally present in that State.

"The arguments lasted three days, and the court before which it was tried, consisting of three judges, took all the third day to deliver its verdict.

It decided that Melinda Smith was legally married to some person unknown, though not to Josiah Wilson, and that Josiah Wilson was also married to some unknown woman, who was not Melinda Smith, whoever else she might be; that no marriage between the plaintiff and the defendant had ever taken place, and that no divorce could be granted, but that if either of them married anyone else, he or she would be guilty of bigamy.

"The Smiths, with the exception of Melinda, were delighted with the decision, for it made it reasonably certain that Josiah could never be recognised as her husband.

She was a good deal cast down about it, for, like every other Indiana girl, she had looked forward to being married and divorced as the natural lot of woman. Now it appeared that she was married, but in such an unsatisfactory way, that she could never have a husband, and never be divorced from anyone.

As for Josiah, he was furious, but there was no help for it, the law was against him, and, as a law-abiding man, he was obliged to respect it, especially as he could not hope to kill off all four of the Smiths, if he decided to make a family feud of it; he himself having no family whatever, and no one to help him to keep up his end of the feud.

"For the next fifteen years Josiah lived a single man except in name, and Melinda mourned her hard fate and kept house for her father and brothers...

...but one day Josiah's lawyer, who was by this time in the Legislature, came to him and offered to have his marriage to Melinda made legal in all respects for five hundred dollars. The lawyer was so certain that he could do this that he was willing to wait for his pay until after he had gained a verdict, and Josiah, after a little bargaining such as every self-respecting man would have made, in his place, consented to the lawyer's terms. It seems that the lawyer had accidentally discovered that there had been a mistake in the survey of part of the boundary line between Indiana and Illinois, and at the very place where Josiah and Melinda were married,

A rectification of this mistake would move the line ten feet west, and so place the spot where the pair stood during their wedding entirely within the state of Indiana. The proper steps to obtain the rectification of the boundary were taken, and it was rectified. Then Melinda in her turn began a suit for divorce against Josiah, and had no difficulty in proving the marriage and in obtaining a decree. Josiah paid the lawyer his five hundred dollars, and was overjoyed at being finally able to call his Melinda his own.

But he met with a little disappointment.

Now that Melinda had obtained her divorce she thought she might as well live up to it, and marry a fresh husband. So she married the Methodist minister, who had just lost his third wife, and lived happily ever afterwards.

"It was just after this that Josiah, being perhaps made a little reckless by his disappointment, became involved in the affair that I was going to tell you about when you interrupted me, and wanted to hear about his marriage.

Matrimony is a mighty curious thing, and you can never tell precisely how it is going to turn out. That is one reason why I was never married but once, though I spent ten years of my life in Chicago, and had friends at bar who stood ready to obtain divorces for me at any moment and without a dollar of expense."

THE END

Go to chapter 1: https://triamond12.tumblr.com/post/784485430639869952/told-by-the-colonel-a-matrimonial-romance

[nikkasimms]

Serrano Sands Casino bar, lounge and hotel! This is a cc-free community lot! *This is a community lot, it is not a hotel lot, though the top floor has two rooms decorated as hotel suites. The bottom floor is a restaurant lounge/bar and the middle floor is a 'casino' with arcade games, poker tables and a bar! The lot has been cleaned with Cyjon's Lot Cleaner. It is recommended that you use Sims2 Cleanpack Installer to install.

Grab this lot HERE! (sfs)

[beccabear328]

✨Check out my new TikTok video of how to impress the Sims 2 Headmaster! ✨Follow me on TikTok to see more sims content! ✨ https://www.tiktok.com/@beckybear3284?lang=en ✨Here is the link to the whole stream on YT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9FCyf1aWI ✨

[veronavillequiltingbee]

Just here to add my own two-simoleons because I can’t shut up

this is my take on the paywall thing on that context. If you’re paywalling that content, I also want a cut of your profits 🤓 I won’t feel icky about it but if you want to profit off of my tutorial (if that was my work) or my resources, or my content, then give me money too. cost of doing business. Kind of like the difference between non-commercial and commercial licenses for art assets.

Personally if I were to monetize my content (which I won’t), I would go the commission route, with the expectation that the content will be shared free to all in the end but I don’t want to monetize because money is expectation, and expectations for me are what kills my drive to even enjoy the thing.

Again that’s MY personal take if it’s something of mine that’s being profited off of, assuming I’ve done everything from scratch or used assets that are explicitly cleared for commercial use.

But also what I don’t like about paywalls, at least historically within the sims context, as someone who has been in the community for a while since the late 2000s (the old sims2community forums before it merged with MTS, mainly, but I’ve been on a few smaller forums as well), is the culture it breeds, particularly on the spirit of collaboration, of accessibility, but also back then pay content was, save for some exceptions, quality-wise, sub-par in quality compared to similar free content.

The hustle culture within CC creation also breeds expectations, the need to produce month after month, as to maintain your subscriber base. In the long run it’s unsustainable, and, based on what I see of pay creators in TS4, the creators just put out filler sometimes to make the sub worth it.

And finally it’s the intersection of sims and influencer culture. I find that once money is involved, whether actual money or social currency, there’s more focus on maintaining your brand and accumulating monetary or social capital and less on being involved with the community, but again just an observation.

does anyone else really hate the new trend of patreon creators locking free content behind the membership feature so you have to "join" their patreon just to download stuff a piece of CC?

it's so obnoxious. why are you throwing extra hurdles in the way of people who want to download your stuff? i can't imagine it actually drives more people to sign up for paid tiers. I think most people will click the link, go "oh I guess it's paywalled" and then close the tab, and then the haters (me) will click the tab, go "oh, that's annoying, I'm not going to download it now" and then close the tab

all it's going to do is deter people who might otherwise have downloaded or reblogged your stuff. it makes no sense no matter how you slice it.

[simsitecture]

Evergreen Institute of Technology

“A humble begining of a university hood”

Hello everyone, this is the master post for all the buildings I created for my university hood. There isn’t much in here yet but I have plans to build greek houses, houses for students to rent and corner shops maybe an arcade. 

I used the Pitchfork River map which is made by M.M.A.A. from Modthesims. I added the map and the links to the lots under the cut as I will keep updating this post to link to the new builds I make in the future. 

The buildings are numbered to make it easier for navigation.

Evergreen Library and Student Union

Evergreen Tech Pool and Gym

Evergreen Bar and Bowling Alley

Evergreen Tech Shops

Puddletown Dorms

Here is a closeup of the main attraction of the building and the reason for why almost all of the lots have L shapes. This Square is what I was aiming to create.

[badchriss]

Saw this amazing house while browsing through the www and I have chosen it for my Sims 2 weekend project. The question is how it would be suitable as a Sims house? Maybe a house where several generations live in and the shop on the ground floor is their family shop? Or maybe as an apartment building with 2 apartments and a shop (I think there was a mod on MTS for that🤔). What do you guys think?

[simsforlife]

Hello there Simmers, I have a tiny question!

Wow. It’s been 3 years. I’ve been so busy trying to be an adult (and then have a breakdown and fall into the deep pits of quarter life crisis) that I forgot all about my simblr. And I see that most of you are still simming like there’s no tomorrow! Which is a super nice thing to see that cheered me up a little bit. Especially seeing that Sims 2 is still very much popular among simmers. <3

I have a question and I would be so happy if simmers would pass it along and give me some ideas. To cut the long story short I’ll just ask:

HOW ARE YOU GUYS MAKING MONEY?

I am currently unemployed and I want to play Sims so much but at the same time I have to pay my rents. How am I supposed to do that? Are you guys especially Sims 2 players getting donations, if not how are you guys surviving especially people who are above 25 and who don’t have rich parents/husbands? Lmao. Can you guys enlighten me? 

[triamond12]

Told by the Colonel: A Matrimonial Romance

W. L. Alden

PART 2

Gradually Josiah and Melinda came to the conclusion that her family was resolved to discourage the match, so they determined to elope and be married without the knowledge or consent of anybody.

"One dark night Josiah carried a ladder and planted it under Melinda's window.

He had advised her to walk out of the front door, which was always left unlocked at night, but she refused, saying that if she was going to elope she should do it in the proper way, and that if Josiah had no respect for her, she had some little respect for herself. She climbed down the ladder with a good deal of difficulty, because she insisted that Josiah should help her, and also that he should stand forty yards away, for reasons connected with her ankles, and he found it rather trying to follow out these contradictory orders.

However, Melinda reached the ground at last, and the pair started in a carriage that had been waiting just around a bend in the road, in company with the Methodist minister.

Their plan was to drive to the next town and there to be married, but it happened that one of the Smith boys, being restless, got up in the night, and, looking out of the window, saw the ladder standing at Melinda's window.

In about twenty minutes after the young people had started, the whole Smith family and their shot-guns were following the runaways in a waggon, and gaining on them fast. "The Methodist minister, whose hearing was unusually good, heard the sound of hoofs before Josiah noticed it, and told the young people that there was not the least doubt that they were pursued, and would be overtaken in a very few minutes.

'And then, you know,' he added, 'the chances are that, being Baptists, they will shoot first, and ask for explanations afterwards. The only thing for us to do is to get the marriage ceremony over before they come up. Then they will see that opposition is of no use, and will listen to reason.'

"Josiah and Melinda at once consented, and the parson, noticing a little clearing in the woods on the left hand side of the road, and a flat sort of tombstone standing in the middle of it, said that he would stand on that stone and marry his young friends so quick that it would make their hair curl.

He was particularly glad to meet with a handy tombstone, for he said that a tombstone was the next thing to a church, and that to be married by the side of a tomb would be almost as solemn as to be married in a minister's study.

So the party hastily descended; the parson mounted the stone; Josiah and Melinda joined hands in front of him, and they were married, and the parson had kissed the bride and pocketed his fee...

...just as the Smiths' waggon drove up and the Smith boys cocked their guns and covered the party.

But the parson was wide awake. He had his revolver out and old man Smith covered before anybody had taken aim at him, but, instead of shooting, he remarked that he was a minister of the blessed gospel of peace; that there was no necessity for bloodshed, and that he would blow a hole through old Smith unless the Smith boys lowered their weapons and consented to argue the matter.

'The fact is, Colonel Smith,' said the parson, 'you're too late. The young people are legally married, and the sooner you accept the situation the better. I married them not two minutes ago, standing on that identical tombstone.'

"Colonel Smith was a lawyer, and the sharpest one in that part of the country. He saw the force of the minister's remarks, so he told the boys to put up their guns, and he shook hands with the minister. Then he inquired, in a careless sort of way, where Josiah and Melinda had stood while they were being married.

The parson showed the footprints of the bride and groom, and then Colonel Smith turned to Melinda and said, 'You'll come straight home with me. There hasn't been any marriage yet. That stone is the boundary mark between Indiana and Illinois, and you were standing in Indiana and that other idiot was standing in Illinois when the parson tried to marry you. Nobody can marry in two States at the same time, and I shan't recognise the pretended marriage till a court of law compels me to do so, which will be never. I hope this will teach you the folly of fooling with Methodism. When you want to get married next time try a Baptist minister, who will know the difference between a tombstone and a boundary mark.'

There were too many Smiths, and they were too well armed to be reasoned with successfully, so the upshot was that Melinda went home with her family, and Josiah and the parson went to see a lawyer.

"The next day Josiah brought a suit for divorce against Melinda. It was a friendly suit, you understand, and his only object was to test the question of the validity of his marriage, for, of course, no man can get a divorce unless he first proves that he is married.

Continue reading here → Next Part will be added soon

[triamond12]

Told by the Colonel: A Matrimonial Romance

W. L. Alden

PART 1

"And by the way," continued the Colonel, "a curious thing about this Josiah Wilson was that he was married for fifteen years and never had any wife whatever."

The Colonel had begun a story concerning one Josiah Wilson, which promised to be interesting, but his incidental allusion to Mr. Wilson's matrimonial experience awakened our curiosity, and we begged him to interrupt his narrative long enough to tell us how it came to pass that Josiah was a married man who never had a wife.

"The marriage laws in the United States," said the Colonel, giving his chair an increased tilt backwards, which was his usual way of beginning a fresh anecdote, "are as peculiar in their way as are the divorce laws. You would think to look at them that they would permit anybody to marry anybody else in any way that either of them might choose, but for all that they sometimes make it impossible for a man or a woman to get married.

There was a couple who intended to be married in a balloon, which is a style of lunacy that is quite fashionable in some parts of the country, though I can't see why a man should want to risk his neck in a balloon on his wedding day unless it is that it takes so much courage to be married at all that a man forgets all about such minor dangers as are connected with ballooning.

The bride, the minister, and two witnesses of assorted sexes went up in the balloon at the appointed time, and, naturally, the bridegroom intended to go with them, but he accidentally caught his foot in a neglected guy-rope, and went up head downwards about twenty feet below the car.

The party in the balloon could not haul him up because they could not get hold of the rope, and the bride would not consent to give up the trip, because the groom had always been a little shy, and she was afraid that, if she let him go this time, she might not be able to land him again.

So the parson went on with the ceremony, and the groom made most of his responses in bad language, and howled for help when he wasn't swearing.

When the ceremony was over, the aeronaut managed to land the balloon without seriously damaging the bridegroom, but when, a year or two afterwards, the bride wanted to get her divorce, the court held that there had never been any marriage, for the reason that both the groom and the bride had not appeared together in the presence of the officiating minister, and that, furthermore, there was no provision in the law which would permit a man to be married upside down.

"But to get back to Josiah Wilson.

He lived in Indiana, close to the boundary line between that State and Illinois, and he courted Melinda Smith, a young woman who lived a little way up the mountain side with her father and three brothers.

The girl was anxious to be married, but her family was dead against it.

You see Josiah was a Republican and a Methodist, while the Smiths were Democrats and Baptists, and, naturally, they hated each other like poison, and one night as old man Smith and Josiah met on their way to rival prayer meetings, they exchanged revolver shots, without, however, doing any harm.

Then once Josiah had most of the calf of his leg taken off by the Smiths' bull-dog, and twice the Smith boys came into the sitting-room where Josiah was calling on Melinda, and suggested to him with their shot-guns that he had better go home.

Continue reading here → Part 2:

https://www.tumblr.com/triamond12/784493511676444672/told-by-the-colonel-a-matrimonial-romance?source=share

[triamond12]

Triamond's SIMS Story Collection

Welcome :)

This space is for sharing stories written by real historical authors, illustrated with my pictures from The Sims 2 game. Please note that I am not a historian and these stories won't be historically accurate. They offer a visual interpretation on these reimagined tales.

If you enjoy old stories or are a lover of classic literature from various genres, I hope you’ll enjoy reading and discussing these works :) Comments, feedback, and discussion about the stories are always appreciated.

Table of Contents

1. Told by the Colonel: A Matrimonial Romance - William L. Alden - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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[simsitecture]

Evergreen Campus Shops - 3x3 - Clothing and Electronics Shops

Hello everyone,

This is the last build for my University so far. I have plans for building some houses for rent, another but more modern looking dorm, possible greek houses with modern architecture, as I’m not a fan of eclectic buildings, and a little corner grocer in the residential area. 

I will share the map and the ‘hood view when I find the time to show you all, how I planned for these 4 lots to appear. I’m open to ideas about what else I can build for the university hood.

CC list is under the cut! 

Enjoy!

Download here

I strongly recommend using  Sims 2 Pack Clean Installer to install this lot and for all your other lot and sim installs in Sims 2.

Thank you all for creating these wonderful CC for us! Credits;  VitaSims2, Adalana-sims, @janika31​, @veranka-downloads​,  PineappleForest, Tiggy027,  Spaik, iCad. 

I have a lot of CC and I’m not up to everyone’s TOU. However if I violated anyone’s TOU feel free to contact me and I’ll remove your CC from the lot.

Apologies if I forget to tag/mention anyone in the cc list!

[simsitecture]

The Static of Verona - 3x3 - Teen Hangout (roller skate rink)

Hello everyone,

Like the previous lot, this is also an edit of another lot I’ve built a while back. I’ve created this one to go along with Veronaville’s architecture and it is in the downtown I’m building for Veronaville: Verona City.

There is a small dance floor, arcade games, grill and a skating rink inside the lot. I use it as a teen hangout but you can easily use it primarily as a skating rink.

Download here

You don’t have to download everything in the list, they are packaged with the lot file. However I strongly recommend using  Sims 2 Pack Clean Installer to install this lot and for all your other lot and sim installs in Sims 2.

CC list is under the cut!

Build mode:

Floor -  wood panel flooring by Dragon Black Sims

Door - Independent Expressions by MaryLou & Panelled doors and windows set by Raynuss (recolours by Michelle) -MTS

Windows - metro window set by Tiggy -MTS &  bari build set by Veranka

Wallpaper -  4t2 two tone wallpapers by Linacherie

Buy mode:

Highest intensity halogen wall lighting (couldn’t find the link)

Neon Open Sign by Atavera (MTS)

brut pedastal sink by Janika31

Panels of Perfection 4t2 by TheNinthWave

Utopian Wall Mural 4t2 by Michelle (MTS)

elena mirror by veranka

I hope you’ll enjoy it!

[simsitecture]

Doc Alan’s Hangout - 3x3 - Bar

Hello everyone,

So far this is the last of my Verona City lots, it’s an edit of the famous Doc Alan’s Hangout. I tried to make it cc free but I don’t like maxis’ wood floors so, sorry. This version of the hangout has 2 karaoke rooms, a bar, pool table and a dj booth with dance floor. You can of course change that to instruments I just like dj booth more.

It has the makeover to go with Veronaville and it’s downtown’s architecture. I’m planning to create a Monty inspired section in the downtown as well. Next post probably is going to be about the map I used and the state of the downtown so far. 

Download here

You don’t have to download everything in the list, they are packaged with the lot file. However I strongly recommend using  Sims 2 Pack Clean Installer to install this lot and for all your other lot and sim installs in Sims 2.

Just some wood floors this time.

Build mode:

Floor -  wood panel flooring by Dragon Black Sims