1-Melissa Fancey is one of a handful of all-time favourite townies but even after making a new skintone for that bodyshape (after I swore I wouldn't) because I just couldn't take the face texture on the original, and re-shooting the close-ups, I never noticed that I'd made her a shade darker! Not until I was done and scrounging for old pics of Melissa and her cousin - a real sim, btw, Cherise Fancey lives in my Pleasantview although she's not a child. I mean, I love this tone on her but how on earth did I miss that? (I also didn't realise until after the fact that I didn't need to change her tone at all because she's Never Naked. *headpalm* But since I did need a 'showerproof' skin for Val and she'd somehow become his colour, it all worked out. I just linked them
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Looks as if LJ may give me trouble posting comments again, so in the expectation of having to redo it I'll keep this one short.
Val, please don't pick up that bottle. (He will, though...) Since you made a point of establishing that he only has two kids at this point, I'm guessing that either the thing he wanted to talk about, or the thing Angel's bent out of shape about, has to do with her getting pregnant again.
I don't think it was LJ's fault. I think my computer just randomly logged me out. When I opened my blogspot dashboard, which automatically logs me back in so I think I'm always logged in, the posting went fine.
I'm always interested to see how people envision Angel. She certainly had to be hot-blooded to keep up with Val! And I'm sure she'd love to know Flo thinks of her as "the gorgeous wife." Flo shouldn't feel too bad about forgetting he's married-with-kids. At this stage of his career, Val's "forget-all-the-reasons-not-to-flirt-me" aura may not be perfected, but it's presumably in a good solid stage of construction.
Frankie will understand the lack of entourage better if he gets to know Val better. He can be his own entourage, thank you very much, and he's probably got a really nice car he likes to drive and wants full control of in case he needs the back seat.
Oh, you know him too well. With my love of cc, yes, Val has a very nice ride, indeed! I had never even opened a car mesh before a few months ago but while I was making a bunch hood deco ready I went ahead and tweaked Val's wheels to my liking (there was just a little something that looked weird to me though that may mean it now looks less like its real world inspiration, meh, so be it). So before this is done you'll definitely get a glimpse of him with his other baby
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This took me a while to get through, because I had to go back and forth and ogle all the details in the settings and the posings; the art, the view from the windows, the buffet table for the crew, Tiffany holding her cup of tea - not to mention how you manage to make Maxis template faces into original looking people (and real people at that), like the crew on the set. You know I love your attention to detail. :) Also I love all the clues to things that might be going on under the surface, even if I probably miss at least the half of it - the same goes for the references BTW. Reading you updates mostly makes me feel puzzled and entertained at the same time (and often has me googling for information on things I think I've picked up on). Since I never played The Sims, I had to google the Mashugas. Am I right in thinking that you're using Kalisa's Sims 2 versions? What a couple! And so right for the movie business. What I know about that, is of course what I've learned from movies (but meta is a theme here anyway), but to me your set-up
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And here I thought this one was so much less busy than some of the other posts since it all happens in one location and there are no time jumps, except for that one big leap backwards to start. I do hope it was more entertaining than puzzling
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I went to have a (short) look at your Tumblr account yesterday, and realized that I have missed out on a lot. I will have to go back and read up on it. My work related problems have just let me spend four weeks of vacation in utter fatigue - and now I’m back at work again. I hope to find an out soon - because this is my life going down the drain. Sorry, for that outburst - but that is the reason to why I can’t find the energy to actually follow the few people I’m still in contact with in the sims community. Not for lack of interest. I am always tired
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I'm so sorry to hear that your work situation still has not improved. I hope that you can find a good out soon and feel replenished instead of drained. Stress is unavoidable but I'm sure we could all do with less of it in our lives.
For me that means trying to make more time in my life for fun, and simming is definitely part of that, but sometimes - often - that's easier said than done.
I use tumblr mostly for the extras and outtakes that I accumulate from my confirmed habit of going overboard. There are a few more from this scene that I still want to post. And despite being completely irrelevant to everything that was going on, Goopy managed to make his way among them. He and Frankie are enemies in game (they used to be friends) so he stalked the lot the entire time!
Extra, because I forgot to comment on that (and a sh--load of other things I thought about while reading through this post - I should probably think of taking notes). The whole world is going crazy right now it seems. Mankind has this sad habit of going round in circles; no matter how much the world changes, the same bad choices are made over and over again. What is with people and their need to divide the world in "we" and "them"? And then of course choose their leaders accordingly. I firmly believe in democracy, but the views of the majority often makes that a very hard thing to hold on to.
The world is always going crazy (though 2016 is shaping up to be a real piece of work). The problem with democracy is not that the majority are so bad; but that the bad are so loud they make themselves into a social majority when they're a numerical minority compared to the mediocre and the good. Also remember that bad news travels fast and good news gets buried and both get misreported a lot.
I just saw your post about the smoking jacket over on tumblr so I replied over there. The short of it is that I cobbled that one together just for Sylvia Marie. What I didn't say was that it's meant to look like she's wearing Frankie's "coat of smoking" so while the waist is cinched and it's slimmer overall, it isn't fitted exactly to her frame. But if you want it, let me know.
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Val, please don't pick up that bottle. (He will, though...) Since you made a point of establishing that he only has two kids at this point, I'm guessing that either the thing he wanted to talk about, or the thing Angel's bent out of shape about, has to do with her getting pregnant again.
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I'm always interested to see how people envision Angel. She certainly had to be hot-blooded to keep up with Val! And I'm sure she'd love to know Flo thinks of her as "the gorgeous wife." Flo shouldn't feel too bad about forgetting he's married-with-kids. At this stage of his career, Val's "forget-all-the-reasons-not-to-flirt-me" aura may not be perfected, but it's presumably in a good solid stage of construction.
Frankie will understand the lack of entourage better if he gets to know Val better. He can be his own entourage, thank you very much, and he's probably got a really nice car he likes to drive and wants full control of in case he needs the back seat.
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For me that means trying to make more time in my life for fun, and simming is definitely part of that, but sometimes - often - that's easier said than done.
I use tumblr mostly for the extras and outtakes that I accumulate from my confirmed habit of going overboard. There are a few more from this scene that I still want to post. And despite being completely irrelevant to everything that was going on, Goopy managed to make his way among them. He and Frankie are enemies in game (they used to be friends) so he stalked the lot the entire time!
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I was hoping you could tell me where you got Sylvia's smoking jacket?
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I just saw your post about the smoking jacket over on tumblr so I replied over there. The short of it is that I cobbled that one together just for Sylvia Marie. What I didn't say was that it's meant to look like she's wearing Frankie's "coat of smoking" so while the waist is cinched and it's slimmer overall, it isn't fitted exactly to her frame. But if you want it, let me know.
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