#these were part of a group of files I downloaded

[ezraphobicsoup]

composition so good the laptop fan comes back after like 6 months to try and drown it out

[pyromaniac-cyndaquil]

It's been a lot of work over a lot of time but I think I can finally share this...

PMD:EoS, but with all of the starters!

...Including Grookey, finally!!!!! 🥳

Introducing PMD: Expanded Sky!

This is a public mod available to download now! It adds in all starters from unova all the way to paldea, as well as zorua, axew and rockruff, and allows evolving eevee into sylveon.

Speaking of which, fairy type has been patched into the game! Disarming voice replaces milk drink and moonblast replaces judgement, which was unused.

Some non-traditional starters are no longer available as hero options in this due to lack of space, but are still available as partners. (Skitty can be chosen as a hero in version 1.0.0 only, so download that version instead of the latest if you wanna use her! Riolu and Shinx are available in version 1.2.1 and below)

If one of your faves was taken off the hero roster (eg vulpix, skitty, riolu, munchlax, etc), I have a tutorial here on how to quickly edit the patched file to put them back in :)

Several regional variants have been added! Alolan Raichu, Alolan Marowak and Hisuian Typhlosion are now available as potential evolutions for their respective base stages.

Partners across both rescue team and all three versions of explorers are available too, including Cubone, Munchlax, Machop, Vulpix, Riolu, etc

Sprites and portraits are courtesy of the brilliant PMD Sprite Repository and the many incredible artists who contribute to it!

Credits for all improvement patches, sprites and portraits are included in the download, as well as an explanation on how to patch the game and the full starter list.

The mod is split in two versions to accommodate all the partners - MIDDAY version and MIDNIGHT version. The download includes both, as well as the tool required to patch your game! You'll need a clean US copy of pmd eos at hand.

A full list of moves learned by newly added Pokémon can be found here, as well as info on how to evolve them and their IQ groups.

If you run into any issues, feel free to drop me an ask or DM and I'll see how I can help/what I need to fix!

You can find the download for this rom hack here!

Edits/updates noted under the cut:

(27/04/23)

The overall mod now has a name - expanded sky! Reflected earlier on in the post.

I've been informed that the included patching tool (XDelta) doesn't work on mac, and after some digging around and discussions in dms we found this tool works for Mac instead.

Added graphics to the post displaying which heroes and partners are part of the hack.

(11/05/23)

Added link to learnset compilation for all new pokémon.

(17/05/23) Version 1.1.0 has been released!

Sobble is now a starter, replacing Skitty (Skitty is still accessible by downloading v1.0.0 on the download page). Sobble is also now a partner in MIDNIGHT.

Zorua/Zoroark's moveset has been tweaked slightly

Base forms of all new starters can now be found in Oran Forest, and can be recruitable in the post-game. The new fire starters can also be found in Giant Volcano.

Extra portraits and sprites were added for Cubone, Psyduck and Machop. Like the rest of the new assets in this mod, these were imported from the PMD Sprite Repository, and credits are on the title screen and in the readme.txt.

Extra credits + more in-depth instructions for patching the game included in the readme.txt.

(18/05/23)

Added a link to a tutorial on swapping out heroes for others already existing in the game.

(22/05/23) - Version 1.1.1 has been released!

Fixed genders for female starter options on the quiz. Updated Fuecoco to use new portraits and sprites. (Credits to Garbage)

(23/05/23) - Version 1.1.2 has been released!

Female starters from gens 5-9 can now evolve correctly (save for starters who don't have evolutions in the game yet - these are listed in the text file in the download)

Rockruff can now evolve, and Midnight Lycanroc's evolution method has been fixed to use the Lunar Ribbon as intended.

(15/06/23) - Version 1.2.1 has been released!

In 1.2.0, a second version of the mod was included in the zip compatible with melon emulator, and potentially others that were having issues with saving.

Fairy gummis were also made available as mission rewards and shop items.

There's a couple more things that can be seen in the changelog including bugfixes, but the main other thing promised was that Froakie and Litten can now evolve directly into Greninja and Incineroar. Due to an evolution flag not being set this ended up untrue, but has been fixed in 1.2.1.

This post claimed dazzling gleam is in the game, but it should've said disarming voice.

🆕 (10/03/24) - Version 1.3.0 has been released!

Dusk Lycanroc, Drizzile, Inteleon, Grookey, Axew and Fraxure have been added, as well as Alolan Raichu, Alolan Marowak an Hisuian Typhlosion.

Axew replaces Shinx in the hero roster, and Grookey replaces Riolu. Additional portraits and sprites added for starter evolutions, including vanilla starters. Sleep animations have been copied over to EventSleep/Laying/Wake animations if missing.

Greninja erroneously had the same moveset as Froakie. This has now been fixed.

Credits are no longer displayed on the title screen.

Sprite, portrait and patch credits can now be viewed by talking to a Cyndaquil NPC on the crossroads.

Evolution help can also be accessed by talking to this same NPC.

[letomills]

Download all (big archive): Mega or Download AF only: SFS | TF only: SFS | EF only: SFS

Edit: part 2 is here, part 3 is here.

Medieval and fantasy dresses for TF, AF and EF. Each age group gets one mesh and the same 233 recolors. The TF and EF recolors can be either standalone or repo'd to AF. This is the foundation of a multi-part project: subsequent parts will give you body shape conversions of these dresses, with all recolors either standalone or repo'd to AF.

The AF mesh is my edited version of iamliz13's alpha-editable gown. The TF and EF meshes are my conversions of that edited mesh, both on new files. AF and TF have fat and preg morphs, EF has a fat morph. Polycount: 3,260.

All textures were initially made by the very talented people credited below. None of this is reuploading other people's work however, as I edited almost all textures and all recolor files properties. I did make those edits on the AF recolor files of the original creators whenever I could, so that you can replace my edited recolors with the originals if you prefer and still benefit from the repositorization.

Mesh previews, swatches, credits and details under the cut.

The meshes

The AF mesh

Iamliz13's AF alpha-editable gown mesh has already been edited by others (I know Dicreasy made a preg morph edit) but if I was going to convert it for 10+ body shapes, I had to get very familiar with it and make sure it was to my exacty liking. So I made my own edit. If you already use Dicreasy or anyone else's version and you want to stick with it, that's no problem since I used the same file. Just make sure you delete my AF mesh.

What I edited: • there was a row of vertices at upper lap level that didn't have the smoothest bone assignment, that's been fixed • the hips were narrower than the standard Maxis AF shape, I widened them to match • remade fat and preg morphs, in line with the Maxis AF shape.

Here's the result, on a recolor that makes use of the alpha part around the abdomen and then on one that doesn't (click to enlarge):

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The TF and EF meshes are new meshes on new files, converted from the AF mesh.

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EF ↓

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The recolors

Edits I made: • many recolors had some skirt texture bleeding on the left thumb → that's fixed • almost all recolors had issues with the shoe sole and/or underskirt texture not matching the mapping quite right → that's been fixed (you can't tell the difference on a standing or sitting sim but it shows when they're relaxing on a bed or a lounge chair) • most recolors had their shoe sounds set to barefoot → changed all of them to normal shoe instead • many recolors had blank bump maps unnecessarily inflating file sizes → that's been cleaned up • some AF recolors were also enabled for EF → they are now YA-AF only since I made proper EF conversions • changed sortindex numbers so that sets appear one after the other in an order that made sense to me.

All recolors are compressed and tooltipped (not mfBSOK'd, sorry if that's what you prefer). Swatches are included.

1. iamliz13

Recolors 1-6 are categorized as everyday, 7 & 8 are categorized as everyday and outerwear.

Original textures are iamliz13's AF recolors.

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2. Sherahbim Formal Witch

Categorized as everyday, formal and outerwear.

Original texture by Sherahbim. Morganna recolors taken from here.

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3. Sherahbim Misc

Autumn witch is categorized as everyday, formal and outerwear. Texture by Sherahbim.

Green sleeves is categorized as everyday and formal. Texture by Sherahbim.

Herb woman is categorized as everyday and outerwear. Texture by Sherahbim.

Medieval witch is categorized as everyday and formal. Texture by Sherahbim. I edited the cleavage to be less deep, to hide that there is no realistic dip in the mesh in between the boobs.

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4. Sherahbim Elven Dress

Original categorized as everyday and formal. Texture by Sherahbim.

The Van recolors are actually my edited versions of these. There was a visible seam on the sleeves that I found awkward to fix so I got rid of them and did something else instead. They're categorized as everyday only.

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5. Sherahbim Heart of the Forest

+ 50 recolors by Meshy:

Categorized as everyday and formal.

Original texture by Sherahbim, @mrs-mquve's recolor is from here, Nabila's recolors are from here, Meshy's recolors are from here. I tweaked exposure and saturation on several of Meshy's recolors.

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6. Sherahbim Widow

Categorized as everyday and formal.

Original texture by Sherahbim. The black is a quick recolor by me. Morganna's recolors are from here.

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7. Sherahbim Royal

+ 50 recolors by Meshy:

Categorized as everyday and formal.

Original texture by Sherahbim. Bethgael's recolors are from here. Meshy's recolors are from here.

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8. Sherahbim The Lady

All Meshy recolors:

Categorized as everyday, formal and outerwear.

Original texture by Sherahbim. Meshy's recolors are from here. I edited Meshy's recolors 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 22, 25 and 26 by replacing the bright white sleeve and underskirt bits of texture with Sherahbim's "aged" white bits.

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9. AlmightyHat The Modest Lady

All recolors:

Categorized as everyday, formal and outerwear.

Textures by AlmightyHat, based on Sherahbim's The Lady.

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10. Beryllium

Recolor 1 categorized as everyday and outerwear, recolors 2-8 categorized as everyday and formal.

All textures by @berylliumsims. I increased the contrast on recolor 1 and darkened the wrist hems.

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11. Arthelope

Categorized as everyday, formal and outerwear.

Textures by Arthelope (originally for TF only) + I added sleeves taken from AlmightyHat's The Modest Lady.

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12. 12Raben

Last but not least, party dresses! Categorized as everyday and formal.

Textures by @12raben, except I edited the sleeves. If you prefer 12raben's version, feel free to replace my AF files with theirs and my repo'd TF and EF will adapt.

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If you're not a fan of the clothing categories I chose, you can change clothing categories in bulk using the Outfit Organizer or the BSOK editor. The latter will also let you mfBSOK everything, if you want.

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And that's it for now. I hope you're happy with the selection of textures I picked (many thanks to the original retexturers and recolorers!). Iamliz13's dress has been recolored so many times, I could have added even more but I had to draw a line for the sake of my sanity. To be honest I'm already pushing it lol. Let me know if you see an issue that I missed or if you have any questions.

[feydecay-blog]

Part II

Another easel paint brush replacement using another Leoz94 converted object from Bioshock: Infinite. Reminder: there can be only one! This will overwrite the previous file I created in Part I.

Even though the marvelous @msbarrows abandoned us left the TS2 community over a decade ago, her lovely creations are still essential for any Victorian game. These are her Victorian textures on the painting frame as default replacements, and I sincerely cannot believe I didn't think of this sooner! The paintings featured here are from Part I. SWATCH

The Independent Expressions Inc. Easel edited to remove the paint tubes in the tray and with a dark texture replacement, then recolored using Aweeshie's volatile retexture as a base in Aelia's Eco Naturals.

SWATCH

The grilled cheese paintings from FreeTime replaced using 19th century artwork featuring food.

And now for the bonus goodies! This is Steffor's Fairy Easel heavily edited to remove the clutter and updated with @belladovah's edits to AnoeskaB's easels. My object will replace the original. I've also included the recolors @riekus13 did in this amazing set that inspired me to finally complete this upload.

This is Gorey's conversion of an Awesims' painting that Malle recolored ages ago that I was able to separate into two different subsets: frame and painting. (Hooray for new skills!) The file name has been changed and will overwrite the original object in the game as it has the same GUID. Frame recolors are Malle's originals with Victorian art.

SWATCH

A Bioshock easel converted by @leoz94, updated with BellaDovah's easel edits and adjusted to be recolorable. Lately I've been on a quest to make a lot of game conversions functional, and this object is perfect for 19th century games.

In the never-ending quest to improve old content, Maya40 at the Historical Sims Discord was kind enough to fulfill a request from me to remap Taroo's Atelier Canvases. The textures are vastly improved, and I've made additional objects with Taroo's originals. Too many paintings were used in this creation to include a swatch, but several are used in the above preview pictures. Thank you for the lovely work, Maya!

And last, but certainly not least, as I get the feeling I'll be revisiting the entire set someday, is the canvas storage object from Tinkle's The Artist set edited to have two subsets and recolored. The wooden frame is a separate subset from the paintings, and I also created a collection of those same paintings grouped together on the floor.

All files have been renamed and compressed with a collection file included. Many thanks to all the creators whose works I used in parts or whole to make this set possible and The Society Papers gang for their patience while I sorted this out! As always, feel free to use and abuse anything included in this set, and let me know of any errors. Enjoy!

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[thewales]

Hi there!

I know many here are waiting for a version of Endgame to read, but I also recommend downloading the audiobook version to hear the way he reads the Kate chapter(s). I’ve never felt less guilty for pirating. To be honest, I don't really do audiobooks -- But, here, you can actually HEAR the condescension during the Kate sections.

I’m seeing mentions in the reviews about William being the villain, but — and this could be because I’m skipping around the audio — I think the cruelty is really directed at Kate. NOTHING you haven’t already read elsewhere, but it’s like he took every unhinged point from Twitter — like, Carole practically pimped Kate out, Kate copies Meghan’s style, Kate only upped her workload after Meghan came on the scene, Kate did Hold Still only because Meghan did the cookbook first, Kate took elocution lessons and her accent is now fancier than William’s, yada yada yada — and wrote a book around those points, adding passive-aggressive commentary AND using his voice to read that commentary with a few doses of sarcasm and condescension. There’s one part where he’s talking about Kate’s elocution lessons and how she’s improved her public speaking skills, and he ends the paragraph by SUPER sarcastically saying something like, “But progress is progress.” I was so thrown by how he said it, I actually did a double take in my bedroom.

I’m not a monarchist. I’m not a stan of any of these people outside of general entertainment/reading material. I’m a stan of Kate’s closet and the goodies inside the Palace vaults. [And I also stan your Tumblr archive, which I continue to steadily work my way through and thanked the Heavens when you published my Anon request ages ago asking you to open it back up ;-)] I say that to emphasize that, usually, the intense opinions people have of the Royal Family usually roll right off of me.

But.

This book is really messed up. It should be called out. It was absolutely misogynistic. Everything, EVERYTHING ties back to the Sussexes. In the Endgame universe, ANYTHING Kate does right is because she’s copying Meghan. The Sussexes do NO wrong.

And while, technically, slightly better written than Finding Freedom in terms of writing skill, this is now the second time I’ve wondered what the editors at his publishing company do. He goes *out of his way* to tie things back to Meghan/Harry even in sections about other people. It doesn’t even make sense considering he claims the book ISN’T all about them. So, he goes around circles just to be able to bring it back to Meghan/Harry. And he accuses multiple people of behavior that Meghan/Harry are exemplars for. It’s beyond hypocritical. He’s like, playing dumb??

I wonder if he might be done with the book writing at least since it is clear he burned all bridges with this.

I think most sensible people agree that William and Harry are done, but IF there was any doubt before this, there should be no doubt now: there is no way William forgives this. I think that maybeeee when Charles dies, there’s a chance William HAS to speak to Harry, but he is DONE with Harry.

Whoa — Okay, this was much longer than I’d intended! Sorry!

Ahhh you are that Anon!!!! Holaaaa! Anon, don't make me listen to the audiobook please don't. I have the file aajaajajaj, in fact, I had it before the book but my stomach knew I couldn't take that but maybe I should, even if it's just that part of the book. And yes, I agree that the worst portrayed in the book is Catherine. About William there is nothing but criticism about his character, that he wants to be King and that he doesn't respect his father's power basically but with Catherine, it's another thing. The word misogynist doesn't fit here. is not enough. I also said that it seems like the sources Omid talked to were people in the Squad, because a lot of the things he mentions in the book, nicknames and all, are things that group has been saying for years.

He's not playing dumb, he is.

And yes, this book is written to defend the Sussexes but in the weirdest way in the world. However, if you ask me, this book was written to channel the anger, frustration and above all the envy Meghan feels towards Catherine.

[nonsensical-pixels]

THE LINDASIMS2 RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION: PART SIX

Today, it's finally here, and with proper grammar and punctuation (hopefully!), as my 200th post. The proof that only @lindasims2 could've destroyed her own content.

As a bloody April Fool's joke.

And we've all been blind to it for years and years and years.

With the help of @fireflowersims, @bstu, my buddies Yolkema and Zeta_Reticuli on the Simscord, @honeymoonseason, and many other lovely folks who are also tired of Linda and her followers' BS, we finally got proof that only LINDA, ONLY LINDA, could've destroyed those files we got.

Keep reading, it's a long one, but I promise it's worth it.

THE REASON FOR THE POLYCOUNT

Firstly, I returned to my roots: the March 2021 set. I wanted to see what else I’d missed. Now, when I loaded up a specific pair of leggings Linda made, I finally understood why the polycount is so high.

If you zoom in closely, you can clearly see that each subset is duplicated multiple times. At first I thought that was normal, until I realised that it's all identical. And uh, that's not normal!

Now, what did Linda herself say? That she has experience in… clothing?

Yeah, I’m pretty sure you'd be able to do this, Linda. With your eyes closed.

THE JPG IMAGES

For awhile I wondered why this particular image was thrown in so randomly into not just this file, but almost every file in the March 2021 dump. But thanks to Linda’s providing that lovely VK link on her callout post against NoMoreSims2Patreon, I finally know the only person in this that had any ‘sentimentality’ regarding Mr Junior over here. (Yes, it’s not actually McQueen, which makes it all the more specific! I love it!)

This was posted just 1 day after that lovely March 2021 dump finally released, on 1st April. No coincidence, I bet, that this Junior is being sent by the lovely lindasims2 herself! Photo provided by @honeymoonseason and also shared to me by multiple others :]

Yeah, Linda, what do you have to say to this…? Your favourite fake Lightning McQueen has finally exposed who actually placed him in this file, and only because you were kind enough to link us to your VK group <3

THE DATES

So, after this pretty incriminating discovery, I decided to backtrack and take a look at what Linda claimed in her callout post to NoMoreSims2Patreon:

These files were apparently last edited on March 28, many days after Linda made a post announcing them. Which points to the leaker being the one to edit them, right?

Well…Linda, did you forget how you operate or something?

Linda uploaded these files on April 1st 2021, having ‘forgotten’ to upload them on March 31st. Credits go to @caramelsmiles12 and @honeymoonseason for the pics <3 Yeah, Linda, thanks for admitting your own guilt?

It’s impossible for any leaker to be able to edit files before they’re even released. To my understanding, Linda purposefully added those corrupt characters and NSFW defaults to her CC, as a sick April Fool’s prank on the people who download her leaked CC.

All of the files you see above, have had the hidden sim, PT 19 (also renamed some very bad slurs by Linda) slipped in. (Though #332 has been accidentally saved by me, lol). The top-only teen-elder male folder also contains the weird gigantoborkodoggo default. And they were all last edited a day before Linda even released the files to her subscribers.

THE EXPERIMENTS

@fireflowersims was kind enough to do some experiments with the corrupted files, to see what else we could find, as well as to dig deeper in them. I won’t state all of them here, but here are a few that stood out to me:

THE LOGIC

I can already hear Linda’s hardcore defendersand subscribers in my askbox (like @alicestrife and @sims2x10 <3) claiming that the pics have been edited, that somehow I have changed the story, etc. I have done nothing except look at the facts I have dug up or been shown. If you want proof, look at this post, it contains some stuff that may interest you and was found over a year ago. As well as the original files :]

I can already see that not being enough for some of you, so here’s the logic even if you don’t take the incriminating Junior (yeah, the fake Lightning McQueen) JPG, or the fact that the files were edited pre-release, into account.

Let’s look at the pros and cons to corrupting these files, for both Linda and her leakers.

PROS FOR LINDA: Gets to ‘expose’ the leaker that has been a thorn in her side all this time. Gets to prank the clueless people who download from her for April Fool’s. Gets more subscribers since people are desperate for ‘good’ content from her.

CONS FOR LINDA: Some people may accuse her, but of course, she always points them to her leakers. Because who else gets direct content from her? Only her hardcore patrons, who won’t turn against her.

PROS FOR LEAKERS: Uhh… maybe gets a kick out of seeing people get mad at Linda?

CONS FOR LEAKERS: People no longer trust them. They won’t download their content, which is how pirates survive in this community. Attitudes towards pirates have always been terrible in this community, especially from the paywallers themselves. Also, people will probably accuse them since they are the people who reupload CC.

Who do you think would have corrupted these files, even without the evidence shown above?

SUMMARY

Stolen meshes, illegally paywalled content, etc. was never enough for Lindasims2, clearly. No, she had one thorn in her side that she wanted to get rid of: NoMoreSims2Patreon, who continually shared her files FOR FREE to the public and meant she made much, much less money.

So, for one final April Fool’s joke of leaked content, she slipped in a very large, very corrupted surprise for anyone who downloaded from her leaker–and sat back and waited. A year later, @dystopianam stumbled across that hidden surprise and on spiraled this saga of discoveries by myself and many others.

However, Linda made a couple of mistakes. She assumed people would look at her response post and think, oh, surely it’s the leaker! Linda’s dates match up!

But thanks to Dale Earnhardt Jr. himself, a bunch of Simscorders and many others decided to research further. And found her lie. Thanks for having such love for a minor Cars 1 character, Linda!

I urge everyone to do their best to report Linda’s Tumblr account, Boosty, Patreon, etc. What she has done ON PURPOSE to destroy people’s games and frame others is NO JOKE. I am not sure if we can take legal action against this sort of ‘malware’ that she produced many years ago, but I know one thing.

A minimum of 2278 simmers have downloaded the reuploaded archive containing Linda’s special April Fool’s 2021 joke. 2278, not counting anyone who might’ve been shared these files through other links, downloaded them from friends, etc. 

CHECK YOUR GAMES, guys! And for the love of all things holy, STOP SUPPORTING SIMS PAYWALLERS! ESPECIALLY THIEVES LIKE LINDA!

[shuaberriez]

♡ basic gif tutorial!

hiiiii!!! i've made a tutorial in the past but i thought i might update it with this tutorial (re an ask i got a few days ago)! please keep in mind that i'm far from an expert when it comes to giffing but i am open to clarification and further questions <33

DISCLAIMER! there are so many ways to make gifs! everyone has a different process, so don’t be afraid to deviate from this! also! feel free to send an ask for further clarification :)

1: converting !

one of the major issues when it comes to ensuring the best quality for your gifs is making sure that you’re using an application that maintains at least a 1080p quality of the video you use. it’s not a good idea to gif anything below 720p as the quality of the video and consequently, your gifs are not going to be the best!

i) choosing a video

if you’re going to gif, i’d recommend choosing videos that are hq!

✰ Stage Gifs

for stage gifs i use .ts files! it’s definitely easier to source a performance video from youtube, but they won’t provide you with the quality you desire. if anything, use youtube as a source for stage gifs as a last resort!

for ts files, you can use:

-> rosebay

-> twitter (search [group name] + [date of performance] + [ts])

i personally use rosebay for my seventeen performance gifs but other groups do have sites/blogs that are specific to them.

psa: kpop24hours are currently not taking in any applicants atm! best advice would be to follow them on twt and keep their notifs on in case they do

these sources (at least, rosebay) are easy and pretty self explanatory to download!

✰ Normal Gifs

for normal gifs (i.e. of interviews, behind the scenes, going seventeen, etc.) i use youtube <3 keep in mind that it’s always best to use the source most reputable to ensure quality. for example, if i were to gif an inside seventeen video, i would use the seventeen official channel’s post of that, not reposts or anything like that!

to download youtube videos, i use:

-> 4K Video Downloader!

ii) how do you download youtube videos via this application?

all you have to do is:

1) copy the link to the youtube video (PSA this application only works for converting youtube videos)

2) press the green plus button on the very lefthand corner at the top

3) a window that lists the options for the video quality you want will then come up.

4) if it offers 1080p, it is almost always best to choose that for optimum quality!

5) the video will then download and you’ll be able to access it via a folder labeled 4K Video Downloader in your files app.

2. resizing and sharpening !

personally, i don’t sharpen in ps unless absolutely necessary. for most of my sharpening, i leave it to vapoursynth.

now, vapoursynth is a massive pain to download and use but it’s worth it in the end (i promise!! i’ve cried over it a lot but i probably wouldn’t be happy with posting my gifs without it)

i personally found it a bit complicated to download vs so i’ll refer you to a tutorial i used (i also got help from some of my moots bc idk how to do anything so dw if it’s confusing :sob:)

i) how to use vapoursynth now that you’ve gotten it downloaded?

this is probably the hardest part of the tutorial (at least, in my opinion) :sob: for this example, i’ll be using my 4K Video Download instead of a vlive, so if you were using a vlive, you’d have your downloads folder open instead of the 4K Video one.

1) open your files folder twice, make sure that there are two windows open - one being the vapoursynth folder (for me, it’s called VapourSynth64Portable (200722) but it depends on which version of vs you download) and another being the 4K Video Downloader folder.

2) notice the different applications (?) within the vapoursynth folder. in particular, the vapourscript (drop video file on me) one. drag the video you want to gif from the 4K Video Downloader folder onto that app, and it’ll open up a new window. this window is the timestamp window.

3) in this new window, type in the length of the video you want to gif. i personally do this bit by bit (as in, i timestamp each gif instead of letting vapoursynth run through the whole video, which, in retrospect is probably smarter but i am a Fool). for example in the video i’m giffing, i want one of my gifs to run from 0:56-0:58 of the video. so i input the start timestamp. in my case, this would be 00:00:56. and then i press enter. this would direct me to put in the duration of the video i want to encode, which, in my case, would be 2 seconds (00:00:02).

4) press enter again! it’ll open up a window on whichever internet server you use (for me, this is chrome) with a bunch of options:

5) next, you want to alter all the options so that it becomes a gif of the size and sharpening you want.

psa: all of the things below are advised options! it’s completely up to you to choose what settings you use. don’t be afraid to experiment!

ii) resizing

-> to resize, you want to use the GIF Size option. keep in mind the acceptable sizes of gifs on tumblr! if you gif something of an incorrect size, tumblr will probably destroy the quality even more than it already does and make it incredibly blurry, and you don’t want that! to prevent this, make sure to refer to this helpful guide on gif sizes for ones you could use!

for this gif, i’ll be using a 540 x 450 size.

make sure to move your gif around so that everything you want people to see in the gif is there. you can even drag the gif out to zoom in, etc.

6) input the size you desire in the width x height sections next to the GIF Size option.

iii) preprocessing

-> this indicates how fast or slow vs will make your gif. for normal videos, i use qtgmc 30 slow and debilinear. however, i’ve seen in other tutorials that it should be different for performance gifs (i.e. qtgmc 60 slow and debilinear). however, this is all up to you and your preference! experiment, and see what works for you!!

for this gif, i’ll be using qtgmc 30 slow and debliniear.

7) select the speed and debiliniear options next to the processing title.

iv) denoise filters

-> this option basically acts to smoothen your gifs!i tend to use KNLM and have actually never used BM3D before, but feel free to choose the latter!

8) choose between KNLM and BM3D (next to the denoise heading), and select the tickbox that comes up underneath it.

v) sharpening

-> this is when you sharpen your gifs! and make them look less grainy than if you were using ps directly. i personally use finesharp, but again it’s up to you!

9) choose between finesharp and VCFreq, and check the tickbox that comes up underneath it.

this is what my settings are like for this gif:

10) next! you need to alter the values for sharpening and denoise! this can be done on the coded box in the upper right-hand corner:

11) first, change the denoise filter value to whichever one you wish. for this gif, i will be using 1.8. this can be done by altering the “1.2” value in the row that has the text “video = core.knlm.KNLMeansCL(video, 0, 6, 4, 1.2, channels = "YUV”)

12) next change the sharpening value to whatever you want! for this gif, i will be using 0.33. this can be done by altering the “0.22” value in the row that has the text “video = fun.FineSharp(video, sstr=0.22).

the text box should now look like this with your altered values:

13) copy the text and you’ll notice that this window has opened on your taskbar. you will need to copy the text from here into this app - vapoursynth editor.

14) paste the text from that upper right-hand corner into the vapoursynth editor underneath the text #whatever you copied from the resizer goes here.

15) before continuing, depending on your laptop’s speed and ability to process things, i’d recommend lowering the RAM usage to something more bearable for your laptop to process without it overheating and getting damaged. i personally use 300 as the RAM usage but feel free to use whatever you want.

this is what your editor should look like now!

16) press f8 and it’ll open a new window. this will be where you get your edited video that will be good to put in ps and play around with. change the preset option to Export to MOV. and next to the header title, make sure to select Y4M in the dropdown menu. after this, you should be good to press start!

3. giffing !

now this is the part of the tutorial where you kind of get to do your own thing

i) importing

1) open photoshop and click on file, then import, and video frames to layers. it’ll open up your files.

2) what you want to do next is find the output folder. this folder can be found within your vapoursynth folder. that is:

vapoursynth64portable >> gifs >> output

3) click on the output folder and it’ll come up with another window:

make sure your settings are like this before clicking ok!

ii) actual gif making!

4) once you’ve clicked ok, it’ll direct you to the workspace. you will have the frames for your gif on the bottom and the layers on the right-hand side. i won’t go into the specifics for giffing since you asked for quality but if you’re looking for more specific instructions on how to actually gif, feel free to send in another ask or i can refer you to another tutorial!

i) timing

you can alter the timing by selecting all the frames and making it faster or slower - it depends on your preference!

ii) colouring

colouring is the foundation of your gif - it’s what makes it look good!! have fun with it, and try out different colouring! you could also look into using psds if you want! psds are basically pre-made colouring (filters, essentially) that you put over the top of your gif

5) once you’ve finished with the aesthetic steps of making your gif, it’s time to export! to export, you must click file >> export >> save for web (legacy). it’s up to you which export settings you use but make sure that your gif is under 10MB!

6) and voila <3 you’ve got a gif!

[deatherella]

4to2 Orchestra Deco Sims

Here comes a conversion of simmaggie's and the royalthornoliachronicle's Orchestra set.

This was a long time coming. I kept trying to make a couple things better by getting nowhere. The sitting deco sims (and their Sims 4 counterparts) have their coattails hanging so that regular chairs show through them. I made a couple chairs with really small seats for them - as seen in the side view of the brass section. A whole bunch of them have their bums slanted upwards and from the backside look like they aren't on the chairs, I can't fix that because Sims 4 deco sims are made from real Sims in blender and posed in there and then exported as obj files. No more moving parts to fiddle with in milkshape. They look fine but that coattail problem bugged the hell out of me and I finally had to admit to myself that that was it.

A few of the deco sims don't have the chair showing through as you can see. The deco sims shown above are repo'd to the violinist (not the instruments) for the string, winds, and brass sections. They all have two subsets. The outdoor pics were my first run through to take previews and found the coattail problem.

The conductor, male and female choir members, male soloist and two female soloists. I only did the black dress recolors for the female soloists. If you want the rest for yourself here are the templates for soloist 1 and soloist 2. The conductor is on a stand from the Merrie Minstels III set. Link for that coming soon.

The percussion section. The percussionists are all repo'd to the bass drum percussionist. He's using the bass drum from the Merrie Minstrels III set from Blue Heaven Sims. It's a way nicer drum thatn the one from the original set. The timpani is a single made from the timpani grouping. I made some recolors for the bass drum so that mesh is included. If you'd like to use the other instruments and the conductor stand from the Merrie Minstrels III set, you can find it HERE at Blue Heaven Sims.

The snare drum is from Kardofe's The Perfect Night Jazz Band set. The cymbal played by the cymbal player is a single of Simcredibles cymbals (also converted) from their Pump Up the Volume set. You need to use move_objects on to place all the deco sims.

Last but not least is the harp and harp player. I cloned Dr Pixel's stereo harp for the base. I cannot get those strings to look decent. They started out as fragmented shiny bits and my fiddling got them whole but still not perfect. If anyone knows a way to fix my problem, will you please do so and share the fix with me? Pretty please? I made the harp a stereo since if my Sims are gonna see the orchestra, they should get a little music out of the deal.

The files are compressed and there are collection files. All the previews are included.

Download.

[honey-milk-depresso]

"𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶..?"- - 𝘼𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨◄(TWST, accidentally joining a mysterious chat group; 1)

🍀

Heartslabyul Chat 1, Chat 2, Chat 3, Chat 4, Chat 5, Chat 6, Chat 7, Chat 8   ⋘ 𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎... ⋙

ＩＮＴＲＯＤＵＣＴＩＯＮ　ＴＯ　ＨＯＮＥＥ－ＭＥＩ！【ホネメイ】

HONEE-MEI is a free application that provides messaging and voice-over-IP services. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

The special part about HONEE-MEI is that it allows you to connect internationally across the globe, not just allow private chats, but allows you to interact with others by typing in the code of your desired group chat or individual you would like to talk to!

Of course, privacy settings can be modified to your liking!

It has recently become more and more popular! Why not give it a try?

ᶤţ ωㄖｕlĎ𝐍'𝓣 𝕙ᑌŘт 𝕥๏ Ť𝐑ʸ...

Download now! 

🍀

▻ 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗯𝘆𝘂𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁  ⋘ 𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎... ⋙

Your friend wanted you to join their chat group through this app called HONEE-MEI. “All you have to do is type in your code” they say, you stare blankly at the code input box as you lazily blinked. “Alright, alright..” you mumbled to yourself, typing in the code your friend has sent you.

They seemed hyped about the group chat they were in, and wanted you to meet all the friends they’ve made all around the world (presumably) in that group chat. You hit “Enter”, expecting yourself to be directed to their group chat.

The screen shifted a bit, glitches appeared as you rubbed your eyes and moved your head up from your pillow. “What..?”

The loading screen froze, much to your annoyance, as you continuously tapped onto the screen in hopes it would un-freeze itself. Abruptly, the screen came back, but instead of your friend’s group chat name, it said:

⋘𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤 "𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙮𝙪𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙩". 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩... ⋙

The heck? That wasn’t your friend’s group chat at all! You grumbled, trying to cancel the unwanted transaction.

⋘𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧. 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣!⋙

You kept pressing and pressing that darn red “X” button but to no avail, and you were transported straight to this foreign chat. Definitely going to file a complaint and a 1-star review of this stupid app.

                                           ➤𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗯𝘆𝘂𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁

                                          →  Y/N joined the chat!

                                          → Ace joined the chat!

                                          → Deuce joined the chat!

Ace: remind me why we’re here in this chat with you guys???

Deuce: Ace!! Dorm Leader is in this chat!!!

                                           → Riddle joined the chat!

                                           → Trey joined the chat!

                                           → Cater joined the chat!

Cater: lmao aceee

Riddle: You’re here because we need to monitor you, and not put yourself in some hectic shenanigans like last time.

Trey: Don’t worry guys, it won’t be that overbearing.

Ace: errrr- case you were forgetting, what’s not overbearing to you is burdensome to me-

Deuce: Ace, just roll with it-

Cater: i swear your dynamic is HILARIOUS lmfao- PFPFPPFPFPF

Trey: Hey, wait.

Riddle: Yes, Trey? Is it about the next Unbirthday Party tomorrow?

Trey: Not that... but there’s this person named Y/N who joined the chat. Does anyone know them?

Shit, that “Trey” guy noticed you’ve hijacked this place. You didn’t even know you could get here.

Ace: er no- never heard of them-

Deuce: I don’t think I know them...

Cater: lol who? idk them-

Riddle: Y/N? I’ve never heard of someone named Y/N.

Then it happened.

Riddle: @Y/N Please tell us who you are. Immediately.

Ace: SPILL THE BEANS-

Cater: LMFAOODUODIDKJDHKJDKH

Deuce: Wow-

Trey: But in all seriousness Y/N, who are you? Are you even from NRC?

You took a shaky breath, deciding to respond.

Y/N: No..

Ace: A HACKER?!?! YOU CAN’T ENTER WITHOUT A CODE- AND OUR’S PRIVATE-

Deuce: A HACKER?!

Cater: OMFG- that’s kinda cool tho ngl-

Riddle: A hacker? Reveal where you’re from right this instance. Or we will have you reported.

Trey: Where are you from?

Clearly, you aren’t God’s favourite right at the moment, feeling the most pressure from the user “Riddle” and you didn’t know what else to say to everyone else. Perhaps the best choice is to reply to the calmest one out the group.

Trey.

Y/N: @Trey I’m not a hacker, I swear!! I got here by accident. I was supposed to join another group chat but during the process the whole thing glitched and it all of a sudden directed me here. I couldn’t cancel it either.

Riddle: What makes you think we’ll believe that?

Deuce: So the hacker got hacked by a hacker and they hacked you into here..? What???

Ace: you dumbass that’s not what they meant omfg-

Deuce: HEY-

Cater: Hmm, alright- I believe ya, bestie!

Trey: Cater???

Cater: I’m cater diamond, third year and 18 in nrc!! i can send you my magicam account if ya want. make sure to follow!!! \^v^/

Ace: UMMMMM??? ARE WE LITERALLY GONNA GIVE A LITERAL STRANGER OUR PERSONAL INFO????

Riddle: I would agree with Ace for this one. Cater, we know nothing about this person. Why are you giving away sensitive information.

Cater: well i mean i heard this app has the very rare tendency to glitch, and maybe they got the rare glitch when they downloaded it or smth- 

Cater: i’ll believe them! besides they literally have their name typed in and not some weird random number like most of the scams and hackers have lmao-

Cater: so hey! :DD

Deuce: Well... alright. Since Cater senpai did so, I’ll do it too!

Deuce: I’m Deuce Spade in the Track n Field Team in NRC! I’m a first year, too!

Cater: i mean- i didn’t give the club im in deucey-

Deuce: BUT THAT’S NOT SO IMPORTANT RIGHT???

Ace: lol deuce, you’re a dunce- anyways, since you did it, i’ll save you the embarrassment by doing it too-

Ace: ace trappola, basketball, first year. boom-

Cater: lmao-

Trey: *sigh* It can’t be helped, I guess..

Trey: I’m Trey Clover, I’m a third year like Cater and I’m not gonna give any more information after this. Sorry for coming across as rude if I did offend you somehow.

Riddle: Even Trey...

Ace: Cmon just hug it out riddle-

Cater: it won’t hurt :3

Riddle didn’t respond for a few minutes, but you saw that he finally started typing.

Riddle: Riddle Rosehearts. If you try to pull of anything funny in this group chat, I’ll have you know that I won’t let you off so easily. The consequences will be dire.

Ace: geez riddle you’re gonna be strict with even people outside heartslabyul-

Y/N: Um, yeah- I guess to be fair, I’ll share who I am.

Y/N: Y/N L/N, that’s who I am.

Cater: hiiiii ! its gonna be fine here dw XD

Trey: Just don’t cause too much trouble. ^^

Ace: @Y/N come join me and deuce’s chat so we can all mowhay-

Deuce: Oh my sevens...

Y/N: errr, okay- weirdo-

Ace: HEY- NVM KICK EM OUT- /j

You giggled. Maybe it’s not too bad.

[tajlibracreations]

Family Reunion TShirts V2 by TajLibra Creations

More T-Shirts for the family.  These shirts are perfect for reunions and family gatherings or when the family is going to an event together. These shirts are brand new designs including:

Ain't No Family Like the One I Got (2 versions)

Ain't No Family Like the One We Got

All We Have is One Another

What Happens at the Family Reunion Stays at the Family Reunion

With The Family

Look for the rest of the collection! Let us know what designs you want for your Family Reunion.

CAS DOWNLOAD -  Top

Family Collection:

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_Collection_V2

Includes

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_AM_V2

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_AF_V2

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_Child_V2

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_Toddler_V2

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_Infant_V2

Outfit Type: Clothing - Top

Sub part Type: TShirt

Fashion Choice: Feminine, Masculine

Age: Infant to Elder

All Occults (excluding Werewolf)

Custom Thumbnails

Occasions: Athletic, Everyday, Sleep, Hot Weather, Party

Swatches: 6 per Age Group

Designs:  6 

Disallowed for Random

Designed by TajLibra Creations

Mesh: Base Game Compatible

Models Credits - Photography by @tajlibra

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DOWNLOAD Family Reunion TShirts on SFS or 🖱️Patreon

File Name(s): Pick Either Merged or Separated, not both!

Merged:

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_Collection_V2

Separated

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_AM_V2

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_AF_V2

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_Child_V2

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_Toddler_V2

TajLibra_FamilyReunion_TShirt_Infant_V2

Uploaded on 10/05/2023 by @tajlibracreations @tajlibra

Want a creation for your Family Reunion? Let me know!

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[letomills]

Download all tops: SFS / Mega

Varied tops for your androgynous/trans/chestbound/flat-chested TF-EF sims, on two meshes converted from AM. Also includes a fix for the AM version of one of them. These tops caught my eye when I saw them on @theboldandthebeautifulsims​’s very inspiring wishlist ^^

They have fat morphs, adults have preg morphs, all categorized as everyday.

Details, swatches and even more details under the cut (I’m passionate about the process, what can I say).

1. Misomoso Sweater

These are the TF-AF-EF conversions of these AM tops by @misomoso-no​ (original AM mesh by Amaryll). Each age group’s recolors are available as standalone or repo’d to Misomos’s AM. TF and EF are also available as repo’d to AF, in case you don’t want the AM version. Choose only 1 recolors folder per age group. Poly count: 1,392.

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2. Yuxi Fitted Open Shirt (”First rendez-vous”)

This is the one that required a fix. 

★ For AM

The original mesh was on a single group, which caused the textures of some bottoms to bleed onto the lower rim of the shirt. To mitigate this, the mapping and textures were set very high, causing the hands and collar bones to be mismapped.

All of that has been fixed:

I also made the bottom part of the shirt a bit wider so more bottoms can fit under it without clipping - the jeans featured on the titlecard and swatches are Memento’s Rope jeans (M, F), which I find to be a good gauge because they’re a bit bulky.

Since both the mesh and the recolors had to be edited, I just remade everything on new files.

The original Yuxi recolors can be found here (I got rid of the bump maps, which I found made the texture look weirdly bumpy).

The Misomoso recolors were originally posted here but the link is dead - I got them from here and here instead.

Yes, AM fat preg looks painful, it was the only way to avoid clipping with most bottoms (this is why I don’t usually care to make preg morphs on separates, it takes forever to tweak longer tops to avoid clipping as much as possible without the result looking too ridiculous. And even then, it still looks ridiculous 😄 Whatever, still glad I did it, it’s not the worst).

★ For TF-AF-EF

The F recolors are available standalone or repo’d to my new AM files. TF and EF can alternatively be repo’d to AF, in case you don’t want AM. Choose only 1 recolors folder per age group. Poly count: 1,352.

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As always, let me know if you find anything wrong.

[grape-writes]

Adjusting to Frustrating Realities

A/N: Ah!!! I'm not as happy with how this pne turned out as i was the first chapter, but it's kind of a filler chapter, sorry

Masterlist

Warnings: Ocean content, there's a chase scene, cursing. [To be added to]

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[Day 12]  

Yvette was beginning to hate the previous squads with a burning passion. Not only did they leave the place a god's damn mess, but they locked just about every door. Even the door to the reactor! Why would you lock the door to the main power source in the entire base!!!  

It took her a full week of scavenging through messy rooms, forcing doors open with a crowbar she found in the storage room, just to find the key to the reactor and laboratory. Only to then realize she could have just pried the door open with said crowbar in the first place.  

Speaking of, they left their rooms horribly kept, furniture tossed around, scattered clothes out of their drawers. They were in a hurry and did not care how they left the place. At least the kitchen and the bathrooms were clean, mostly; the messiest was mirrors that had been left open and items within the cabinets tossed about as they searched for supplies.  

And don’t get her started on their lack of care when setting up the underwater cameras connected to the base.  

Not only were those flimsily installed (and she's not even a mechanic, it's just obvious), but they were exposed! On an alien planet with obviously sentient, and clearly very intelligent, life! That’s just asking for them to be tampered with! And they were! Several times! At least, according to the various files Yvette was able to download from the terminal and uploaded onto one of the data pads. 

Well, 'pad' was a stretch; it was a band that wrapped around the forearm and locked in place with a latch. FazTech had made it usable regardless of dominant arm, with the screen on the center turning depending on how you set it up. There were no buttons attached to the outer edge of the device, it was purely a touch pad; this made it easy to wear on either arm, but it was still a loss for when the thing inevitably doesn’t turn on by touching it. 

And goodness did the previous squads leave dozens upon dozens of files to sift through.    

Most of the camera feed had been tampered with; an animal hitting one offline (both purposeful and accidental), and by someone… deleting the files. The records connected to various files show a, 'David Miller' as the one responsible. It seemed he quickly deleted as much camera feed as he could about the same time they received the distress signal.  

That name again… something about it made her stomach churn.  

The other files were field work from the marine biologist and engineers; loose photos of the strange creatures that inhabited the planet, broken equipment, the other members of the squads interacting with various marine life, weird plants. There were even a few photos of Sun sprinkled in, often physically interacting with the members; it kind of reminded her of those photos of sharks cuddling with divers.  

There were even photos of Sun playing with... children. Two of them, a dark-haired little girl with the brightest green eyes and a dark-haired girl with pigtails and blue eyes; the files only named one, Charlotte, but never specified which one that was. There weren’t many photos, mostly of an adult monitoring Sun as he interacted with the two, a few of the images came with notes from the photographer about how the playdates went.  

And hey, Sun scored well in the eyes of the adults, good for him.  

What weren't photos were text files of information the group had gathered from their time in the area. Most of it was firsthand accounts of experiences and how they survived. Often it was an experiment, testing what could and could not be eaten or touched safely. Though the most concerning part was the various members of the squads getting a strange skin itch. The files on it were... hauntingly deleted. 

The text files provided a great deal of help when she would eventually have to leave the base to get food or supplies.  

Plus, it also informed her that Sun was venomous. Apparently one of the members, the navigator, had accidentally startled the Mer. They ended up pricking their hand on one of his spines, one along his back (that he apparently had?), and whatever was in the venom made them… euphoric? Giggling at everything, running around in sudden bursts of energy.  

Whatever it was, had made Sun so startled, he disappeared for a week and returned with a shell as an apology; he refused to elaborate and avoided the navigator if he could. Poor bud.  

A part of Yvette was glad they documented almost everything around them, but she was mostly annoyed at the sheer magnitude of what she had to look through. At the very least they organized everything into folders she could just press on at the top of the data pads screen.  

A surprising find amongst the scores of files, was in the same folder Sun was in, multiple other Mer listed right alongside the bright yellow Merman. Siren? It seemed not even the previous squads knew what to call them, simply titling the folder ‘mermaids’ and calling it a day.  

The most notable of the other Mer, was a deep blue beast of a creature, with lighter coloring around half their face and torso. They were lankier than Sun, tail ending with a fin reminiscent of a shark's tailfin, and clearly nocturnal. Their eyes were often dark pools with a red pinprick for a pupil, though on rare occasions they caught them as pure red with a white pupil instead.  

On the back of its head appeared to be a lure-like appendage that ended in a bulb, it was speckled with bioluminescent dots, as was their tail. When it was photographed from a distance, it was often in some underwater cavern, where the Mer glew beautifully in the dark. Though other photos didn’t include this glow, which could mean they had a level of control over their bioluminescence.  

Yvette had seen this Mer before, stalking her outside of her window at night. They weren’t very brightly lit, glow toned down to a simmer; possibly as to not startle her further than they had... Wait, no. They were trying to scare her regardless, especially considering their cackling and grin.  

Regardless, most of the photos of this Mer were either partial pictures, blurry, or photos taken with the flash to catch the poor thing off guard. There weren’t many photos, but the ones they had in the files were mostly dark, with only two or three where flash was used to capture the Mer’s image.  

Within the text files, there were a few encounters with the Mer, dubbed ‘Moon’ by the captain's right-hand man, mostly involving said right-hand man. Apparently, the Mer would stalk the windows at night, specifically the one that became Yvette’s room, and he wouldn’t leave until either a curtain was closed or the person within went to bed.  

 There was only one other Mer in the folder, no photos and only one encounter, and by the physical description, this one was bigger than the other two. One of the squad members had gone too deep into an underwater cave and the beast jumped at them. The account was vague, something about a haunting song in the dark and flickering lights; then they were being pulled up into the base by a confused engineer and concerned medic. The file was partially scrubbed and didn’t provide much of a description beyond ‘big’ and ‘toothy’. 

Most of the files related to this other Mer had been scrubbed, with a note on the folder that it had been ‘deleted by admin’. Which was honestly bizarre coming from a place like this, where no FazTech higher ups would dare step foot.  

Looking through files was... exhausting.  

The door to the docking bay opening broke Yvette from her mental debate on what she should focus on first, followed by a familiar chirp. Sun had opened the door, again. He'd realized she would get up to investigate when the door would loudly slide open and would do it occasionally when she hadn’t seen him that day yet.  

Or even when he had, but he decided she was spending too much time inside.  

 This instance was a case of the former, she’d ended up spending all morning going through files in the lounge, casually laying against the couch as she ate a ration bar. And clearly the yellow Mer was feeling left out, must’ve been waiting by the entrance of the cave for her to swim down.  

With a lazy huff, Yvette pushed herself off the couch and hurried towards the docking bay. She was suddenly glad she’d put on most of her gear before she decided to go through file after file, so all she had to do was slip the flippers onto her feet and mask over her face.  

Sun was where she thought he’d be, claws nervously tapping at the metal platform as he waited for her to arrive and pay attention to him. At least, that was what she could only assume he did this for, attention. He was like a dog at times, a gold retriever in fish form. She was far too endeared to really be annoyed for very long.  

The sound of her walking along the metal platform, flippers in hand, made Sun perk up. His chirp of greeting as loud as he could make it, “Shooting Star!!”  

 With a lighthearted eye roll, she sat onto the platform to fix her flippers onto her feet, form well within arm's reach for the much larger Sun, “Sunny, mornin’.” 

The Mer watched her slip the fins on with an awed look, “What... were you doing? Been here all morning.”  

Yvette softly groaned, adjusting the mask tighter onto her face, “Looking through what they left me.”  

“Bad?” Sun offered both the word and his hand to help her into the water, which she happily took. 

“...No, just... incomplete. Someone removed some of it before they left.” Yvette scowled as the water consumed her form. The water was becoming less and less... tingly every time she entered it. She wasn’t sure if that was a good or bad thing, but it felt less uncomfortable to swim in.  

Yvette wasn’t worried about not being able to hear Sun under the water; her mask was equipped with ear coverings that could (somehow) detect sounds beneath the waves. That, and there was a little speaker to allow Sun to hear her. These were typically used by groups of divers to communicate with each other back on Earth, but it’d do here.  

The corners of Suns mouth shifted downwards into a frown, opening briefly to reveal his teeth before he spoke, “That... does not sound like them... most of them...”  

“It was done by a man named David apparently, or his profile was used to clear everything.” Yvette offered as they slipped out of the cave and into the open water, schools of fish scattering when they swam into them.  

 Sun’s nose crinkled at the name. “Dave? Is that what... they called?”  

“Yes, Dave is a nickname for David.” Yvette confirmed, sighing, “Sounds like a real piece of work, if you ask me.”  

The two slipped down into the ravine, idly swimming amongst the brightly colored plants and scattering fish. Yvette didn’t really have much of a goal for the day, maybe trying to fix some of the cameras, but most of that was out of her expertise. This conversation was good for stalling until she had to work on fixing the mess left for her.  

“Dave... was not nice.” Sun confirmed, gliding in the water over Yvette to direct their path ahead, “Said... mean things to me and the guppies. Big-one's never... believed us when we told them.”  

“Weird... But not surprising. Adults tend to disregard things kids say a lot of the time, especially when they say an adult is acting weird.” Yvette began to ramble, tapping at her data pads screen with a huff, “because oh, ‘what do kids know’ and ‘they could be lying’. Morons.”  

Suns bubble of laughter at Yvette’s mockery of the adults she was upset with broke her from her anger. It was light, backed by a chirping sound, and it was loud on her ears; fitting for a colorful, friendly, being such as himself. It made the fire in her chest simmer into a comforting warmth.  

“Silly.” Was Suns only response to her rant, flicking a claw at her mask. It bounced off the protected layer, much to his disappointment.   

It seemed Sun liked being able to poke at her skin; the number of times he’d play with Yvette’s bare hands or poke and prod at her face when she’d remove her mask, was already more than she could count. The previous squads probably didn’t let him get this close often, safety concerns; that or he was just endlessly fascinated by humans. Or maybe he was just physically affectionate, like a dog?  

Gah, she should really stop comparing him to a dog. 

With an amused eye roll, Yvette swam ahead to match his stride, “I’m silly, or the adults are? Wait, I am an adult. Fu- ahem, Frick.”  

Sun’s grin widened, and his laughter can be heard in his voice as he spoke, “You! Silly words!” 

“What? You mean me doing the ‘dumb adult voice’?” Yvette did the voice for affect, chuckling to herself at it. Or maybe Suns laughter was just contagious.  

“Yes!! Did not know... you could do that to!” Sun chittered with his teeth. 

“To? You can change your voice then? That’s cool!” Yvette turned with the curve of the ravine, running a gloved hand along the rock. “Some people do it to entertain or mess with people.” 

“Yes! Most of... us? Can! Used to catch prey!” Sun beamed at the praise. 

“Oooh, that makes more sense. Some birds back home can mimic sounds, not for hunting, I think, but it's really cool.”   

Just ahead of them was one of the cameras, its lenses tilted downwards, and various wires ripped open and the rock above it was clawed at. Another one some creature broke intentionally, it seemed. This wasn’t the first time she’d had to come out and try to fix one of them, annoyed that her method of monitoring the area was taken from her.  

Though approaching said cameras afterwards was always nerve-wracking, especially when there were clear signs whatever had attacked the camera was doing it intentionally. Something wanted her attention, probably to kill her, and it was intelligent enough to understand what destroying the cameras does.  

And judging by the claw marks, she wasn’t sure she wanted to know what it was. 

Sun frowned at the sight of the destroyed device, chirping something to himself, “Ah... again?” 

Yvette sighed, tugging at a tool on her belt, she began fixing the destroyed wires, “Yeah... something out here is really out to get me, huh?”  

Yvette could see Sun in her peripheral, frowning as he scanned the water and kelp around them. It was smart of him to keep an eye out for dangerous creatures in the water when something was clearly trying to get her, especially when she was joking about it. Plus, he most likely knew the area far better than she did and would know if something dangerous was nearby.  

The previous squads' files were rather extensive about flora and fauna in the area, but she hadn’t yet read everything. Granted she was more focused on information about the obviously intelligent mermaid (merman? Siren??? What did she refer to Sun as??) that could easily open the docking bay.  

It was fortunate that he was both friendly and nervous about harming her; constantly pulling her hands away from his spikes or spines, careful not to accidentally nick her skin with his claws. She noticed that he’d even try to corral her away from areas that seemed innocuous enough, only to learn something was dangerous about the environment.  

This almost happened with one of the caves along the edge of the ravine; she was just exploring, and Sun pulled her up suddenly from her position by one of the caves in the ravine. But before she could yell at him, a snake-like creature struck at where she had been floating previously. The thing must’ve been twice her size, scaled with sharpened teeth that gnawed at the open water.  

Sun had tried to tell her what it was called, but she decided to just call it an ocean adder for now. It vaguely reminded her of an ambush snake back on earth that would hide in the sand and strike when prey got close enough. She just hoped it didn’t have the same deadly venom.  

It took longer than she would’ve liked to reattach the wires, nearly zapping herself a few times in the process. Once it was finished, she set to setting the camera back to its natural position, as well as briefly checking its connection to her data pad. This took a few moments of silence and loading screens.  

“See anything?” Yvette offered after confirming it was connected, glancing at Sun. She was both curious, and anxious about the answer.  

Sun seemed to get more and more anxious as time went on. He was rubbing his webbing on one hand with the other, tail flicking under him. His eyes darted amongst the foliage behind her, pupils slitted and small.  

Sun made a grumble, clawed hand slowly resting onto into her arm, gaining a tight grip against her gloved arm. His voice came out quiet, barely above a whisper, “...yes.”  

A turn back provided him correct, eyes glared at the two of them from the cover of the flora in the area, red and malicious. Yve couldn’t tell with the distance, but whatever it was couldn’t have been much smaller than Sun in size. And there were multiple of them, all watching from the shadows.  

Ah, shit.  

A lot of creatures here seemed to have red eyes, often the more dangerous ones. It was like a black widow spider with her red hourglass mark or those brightly colored frogs. A sign of danger. This thought wasn’t comforting, considering Sun had red frills all over, but at least his eyes were a calm blue.  

At least he didn’t seem to want to kill her.  

Yvette slowly put her tools back onto her belt, lowering her own voice to a whisper, “We go?”  

Sun merely nodded, hands latching onto her shoulders to push her further along the rock. His grip turned into a full carry as the sounds of other creatures came from behind them, pulling the two quickly down into the ravine to slip between the foliage and rock formations.  

Instinctively, Yvette curled around Sun as they swam off, twisting in his hold to latch her arms around his neck and her legs around his middle. Not the hold she would’ve gone for, but there wasn’t really any time for anything else. It at least made it easier on Sun to carry her with her latched on like a koala.  

From her new position, she could almost see the beasts following them; flashes of a deep red paired with lighter shades of red frills and fins and pitch-black scales following after their intended prey with such malicious intent it made her skin crawl.  

Suns frills made it difficult to really get a good look at whatever they were, just that they felt... out of place in the rest of the brightly colored fauna around the base. Of all the creatures Yvette had seen so far (that had red) most of them had the coloration as frills or accents, not a primary coloration. But these beasts were almost fully red, with black being their main accent color.  

It almost reminded her of deep-sea fish back home; having heard that many of them were red in color to blend into the darkness of the water. She'd heard that red was the first color to disappear completely while underwater.  

Had something from below decided to venture to the surface?  

Sun made a sharp turn into a cave as they rounded a corner within the ravine, swimming them deeper inside encase the beasts following them continued their chase into it. After a moment of them catching their breaths, flashes of red darted past the cave entrance at such a fast speed Yvette couldn’t even tell what the creature's silhouette was, much less if it was a Mer like sun.  

Sun glared at the cave entrance for a while, waiting to see if it was a trick, and the beasts were just outside. His fury presented itself as the spikes along his head slicking back against his scalp, twitching and flickering as he growled.  

Yvette hadn’t seen Sun this upset before; sure, he’d growled at things when they got too close for comfort, but never this bad. It was a deep rumble so close to her ear from her position clinging onto him, it almost made her want to shiver in fear at the proximity.  

Yvette had to crane her neck to watch the entrance of the cave they were tucked into; tall stalks of kelp set just outside of it, acting as an almost curtain for them. There didn’t seem to be any sign of their stalkers against the gently sway of the plants and the bobbing of the fish that passed the cave entrance.  

It was only then, that Yvette let out a sigh of relief, muscles relaxing in Suns hold. When she did break their tense silence, it was barely above a whisper, “Safe?” 

Sun flinched at the sudden noise, slitted eyes darting down to make eye contact with her, his muscles also relaxed. His own voice a bit louder than hers, but still a whisper, “Should be... but careful.”  

Yvette nodded slowly, pulling herself off Sun, “Got it. Let's go.”  

Sun helped her stabilize in the water, taking her by the hand to lead them back out of the cave and into the rest of the ravine. There didn’t seem to be any sign of their pursuers, not even a red fin poking through the kelp. Just small fish darting to and from and the occasional predator snapping at the easy prey all around them.  

It was a tense peace, but a tense peace was far preferable to the adrenaline rush that accompanied a chase.  

It didn’t take long for them to return to the camera, untouched and still repaired as they’d left it. A quick glance around proved that they were almost completely alone amongst the kelp and other plant life in the area. Honestly, the previous squads should have realized this was a poor spot to leave a camera, especially one so exposed on the rock.  

“Next time, I'm gonna just let the camera over here stay dead.” She muttered to herself, narrowing her gaze back to where they’d spotted their stalkers prior. 

Empty.  

Sun hummed along with her words but said nothing in response. Instead, he led them back the way they came along the edge of the ravine, cautious as they went. The water was still bright in the light of day, so they weren’t swimming back in the dark.  

Thankfully days on this planet were longer than they were on earth, as the planet was far larger than earth was. This completely threw off Yvettes sleeping schedule, often waking up to darkness outside or falling asleep while it was still bright out. It was one of the many things that changed how she went about things on the planet's surface.  

Gravity was stronger, meaning she had to put more effort into lifting things that would be easy to carry back home. The waters pressure was stronger, so she’d have to be careful going deeper, and take breaks more when traveling back up; wouldn’t want to get decompression sickness while all the way out here by herself. She wasn’t sure if the medbay had anything to even help with that, or what she could even do to help with it.  

Yvette was a reef diver for god's sake! Not a deep-water diver! 

While the vehicles in the base could help with that, acting as a decompression chamber, she wasn’t even sure if any of them worked anyway. Many spots where there should have been a vehicle were empty, meaning the previous teams likely took them to run off. That wasn’t the issue, of course, the real issue was whether or not they took the fuel with them from the remaining vehicles.  

Because of course they would take the fuel, they weren’t totally incompetent.  

Morons.  

Yvette almost missed the cave entrance to the base, had Sun not stopped her, pulling her along by the arm. Entering the number code to open the door and letting it pull open, she pushed herself onto the platform with a huff, falling onto her back.  

“Fuck, man.” she breathed, hands pulling her mask off her face to toss it somewhere by the stone platform, “We just out ra- swam a couple murderous fish.” 

Sun chittered out a quiet laugh, pushing himself top sick next to her, “We did. You did very well.”  

“I clung to you like a child, Sun.” Yvette turned her head to stare up at him, hand limply tugging at her braided hair to remove the band, “I hardly did anything.”  

“And we... escaped! Very fast!” Sun chirped, falling into his back to lay next to Yvette properly, “I swim better than you, you did the smart thing.”  

“You’re doing it again.” Yvette said with a deadpan, though endearment underlined her tone.  

“Doing what?” Sun asked, tone carrying genuine confusion.  

“Complimenting me when I say I did something bad.” Yvette couldn’t hold the deadpan, a teasing smile forming along her lips, “Might think you’re attached to me already.”  

Sun’s face shifted from confusion to a teasing grin of his own, “Well... maybe I am! What are you going to do about it?”  

“I... did not plan that far ahead.” Yvette admitted, cheeks dusting with pink, laughter bubbling in her chest. 

It seemed her laughter was contagious, as Sun began laughing too. The sound of it startled her, and she couldn’t help but stare at him. He’d lifted a clawed hand to cover his mouth, eyes shut.  

...Maybe being stuck on this planet wasn’t so bad.  

“Hey, it wasn’t that funny!”  

“It was!”

[etraytin]

I saw on AO3 that you were archiving JoshDonnaFF from Yahoo groups. Did you manage to do that, and do you know if the other WW fanfic groups were archived as well? Thanks.

I was only able to archive part of the archive before a pretty ruinous computer crash wiped me out. One of these days I may try and poke through my old-old backups to see if anything survived, but I remember that I needed to download special tools to even open those files and I don't know if they're available. Fortunately, a lot of what was on that group is available elsewhere, especially on A03 itself now, so not all is lost.

Here is the link for what I did save. Feel free to pass it around if you know others who are interested. I do not know if any other WW archives were saved or in what format, I know people were racing to download the content of groups before the shutdown but I do not know what became of them after that. AO3 has been very firm that we are not allowed to upload these stories there without direct author permission, so everything has been pretty ad hoc.

[beatricecrumplebottom]

I made a new mesh! This used the corset tank from H&M and the skirt of a teen Freetime outfit. They were already made separates by Skell. I then shoeswapped Antka’s 3t2 Pixicat sandals onto it.

It may not be the most creative or original, but it’s my first frankenmesh and shoeswap. The hardest parts for me were getting it to show up in bodyshop (groups and subsets sort of boggled my brain) and the recoloring.

Mesh is 3k polys, files have been tooltipped and compressed. Has both morphs. I’ll get around to age converting & possibly bodyshaping it at a later date.

Download: SFS | Box

TOU: Don’t claim it as yours, and don’t make money off of it.

Tag me if you recolor, I’d love to see it!

Other things: shown on Ophelia Nigmos in Bodyshop, the pattern on the dress is gingerbread cookies from All-Free-Download.

[daisydreamingsims]

We 'R' Kids Toys & More | The Sims 4 | NO CC

⬇️Watch the Stop motion video here! ⬇️

This build is my entry for part 4 (coming soon) of the "Shedford Hollow Sims Save" collab... #StreamShedSave & #ShedfordHollowSave (this and other great lots made by outstanding builders can be found on the gallery under those hastags). I am so proud to have been chosen to be part of such a talented group of builders/creators! All my builds can be found on the Sims Gallery. ------------ My Gallery ID: DaisyDreaming Tray file can be downloaded here.

🏡 Build Info 🏡 🏪We 'R' Kids Toys & More 🌎World: Magnolia Promenade 🏭Studio apartment for "live-in" lot owner, 1 bedroom and 4 baths 🏪Lot: Paddywack's Emporium 📏Lot Size: 20x20 💵Lot Value: §210,886 ----------- This is a retail lot - a kids' themed store with clothing, toys, books, and furniture. There is an employee breakroom upstairs, and an office for the owner with a conference area. Obviously, these are just for aesthetics, since the Sims don't really utilize breakrooms and conference rooms while working. There is also a stockroom in back (also for looks). There is a small 1 bedroom apartment for the owner of the lot to "live" in. In order to do this, you would need to have a sim purchase a residential lot (I usually buy the cheapest and leave it empty), then have them buy the retail lot. The sim can sleep, eat, etc. to "live" there outside of open hours. 📝Note: if you leave the lot, they will return to their "home" lot and you'll need to travel back to the store. 💡Tip: For the stockroom & breakroom/office, lock the door for "employees only" - the stockroom will need both the interior and exterior door, or you'll have sims using that sink (it's perfectly understandable to just lock the breakroom completely, as I found the employees kept going to the office to watch TV when they're supposed to be working 😂) For the studio apartment, lock the door for your sim/household only - you'll need to unlock/lock again as necessary if you invite friends over. 🖼️NOCC Gallery Paintings can be found on the Sims gallery by: Cribea9, SimsationalToo, Catatron16, PnLj20, AlJay2000, MOONL1GHTSEEKER, Lousari, & Takissis 😲A special shout-out to @InSims for the amazing clothing racks used in the store! They (and other really cool little builds like that are available on the gallery under their id: theinsims (also, they have one of the very best stop-motion sims channels around!)

There is NO CC. As part of this version of the collab, we were only allowed to use the following packs (I used all of these): Base Game City Living Get to Work Tiny Living Moschino Dream Home Decorator Movie Hangout Industrial Loft Kit Free Holiday Pack

Be sure to enable bb.moveobjects cheat - it's supposed to be by default now, but just in case!

I hope you come check it out, and while there, please 👍🏼like 🔔subscribe ❤️& share!

[pooklet]

anon asks: unhelpful answers edition!

1. I don’t use the hair binner, so I’m not sure how that works. I’ve always used Wardrobe Wrangler to bin hairs (and I don’t even fully know how to use that). But making elders keep their colors isn’t part of that process, as far as I know. What I always do, when recoloring a hair, is just give elders the same hair color texture as adults. That’s all! So if I was retexturing a hair (ignore the old texture, I grabbed one at random) all the textures inside the bodyshop project would look like this:

It sounds like you may have downloaded some hairs in which the recolorer has given elders a different gray texture. I have no idea how to fix this after the fact other than to make a bodyshop project of the hair and replace the gray textures with the color that the younger ages have (assuming the recolorer hasn’t also deleted the elder stage, which is a whole other can of worms). Someone else might know if there’s another way to do without making a new recolor, but I’ve always just done that. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help!

edit: oh my god i’m so dumb. you can just export the adult texture and import it over the gray one in SimPE!! again, this assumes that the recolorer did not completely delete the elder age, but yeah. there you go! i cannot believe i forgot about that lol.

2. My own! I’m still using human ones for the moment cuz I haven’t been able to decide which alien ones to default instead. I use 32, 42, 47 and 51 from my Kids In Technicolor set. If you want the exact ones that I'm using, here you go! These skew darker than Maxis’s default S1/S2/S3/S4 range, so if your skins are mostly geneticized in keeping with Maxis skintones, mine won’t fit well in your game. If you’re just interested in the textures that I use, not the specific shades, you could default some different shades from that set, which you can find in this sfs folder.

3. Hi anon! It is a default slider, yes, and it’s toward the back of the “Face” section, which is the first group of sliders. :)

Edit: if you are making sims in CAS, you won’t have that slider available and will need to get the Bodyshop Sliders for CAS mod. Sorry about that! I never make sims in CAS so I forgot that slider wasn’t there! Thanks to @kayleigh-83​ for pointing that out.

4. Alas, I have no idea how that mod works! Modding is completely beyond me. But it does work in my game, you just have to have it in your downloads. If it’s not working for you, you may have some sort of conflict, and may want to test it using the 50/50 method in CAS. Don’t forget to backup your neighborhood first, and restore it after you have finished 50/50ing!

5. I have no idea! :( There are tutorials on making accessories but I’ve never braved them. But this looks like a really good place to start, if you want to give it a try. :)

6. Hey anon! I assume you are the same anon who has asked for Lilac a couple times before and I am sorry for the delay. He’s going to be up with the other spares after the next Cakebread update (in which Tiara is finally going to die) but since you have been so patient I have uploaded him ahead of time. Here you go! Everything is in folders, so you can delete anything that you already have. You can dump his sim file in your Savedsims (or I think he will still work fine in Downloads).

The floorplans and library were built by @skulldilocks​ and my versions  are missing some CC that I accidentally deleted, so here are some top-down pics she took for me: library, gas station.