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Since its pride month...

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The best line in Lilo and Stitch is, “No! Don’t touch that! It’s from my blue period!”

Like not only is Lilo familiar with goddamn Picasso despite being maybe 8, but she’s made enough serious art of her own that she can divide it into similar periods.

Lilo is a goddamn prodigy. She is an eccentric genius on par with Tesla or Van Gogh.

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Mary Blair concept art for Disney’s CINDERELLA (1950).

The Fairy Godmother apparently started out as a more witch-like character first (image 5). The design could almost be a very early Maleficent.

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Two up, two down

We talk about Potter as a timeless series, as quills and parchment will never date, but there are a few key elements which are of their time, and I sometimes suspect that eventually, their original meaning may be lost.

Snape’s house in Spinner’s End is one of these.  If you visit Surrey, a house akin to Number 4 on Privet Drive can be found on hundreds of identical estates.  Indeed, the three-bedroom house with a garage, and both front and back gardens, situated on a private housing estate in leafy surburbia is one that most British people will have strolled through at some point.

But Snape’s house in Spinner’s End is the opposite of the Dursleys’ aspirational abode, and is somewhere that few modern readers will have seen in its original form with their own eyes.  Snape’s house in Spinner’s End is a traditional two up, two down through terraced house, mired deep in a maze of identical cobbled streets, overlooked by a looming mill chimney, and seemingly – by the 90s – entirely abandoned.

The difficulty that some may have in accurately picturing this scene is because these houses, in this state, no longer exist.  A large percentage of two up, two down terraces were demolished as part of slum clearance, which should tell you all that you need to know about the state of the houses.  

Those which remained have been extensively modified – usually knocking down the privy (outside toilet), and then building a two storey extension across the bulk of the yard to create a third room downstairs, and a bathroom upstairs.  Some houses only have a single extension; it is rather common in some areas of the Midlands to have a bathroom that leads off the kitchen downstairs – because the bathroom was the missing room, and it was cheaper to build one storey than two.

Pottermore had an article earlier in the year which explained how the filmmakers originally wanted to film on location, but could not, because the houses simply did not exist in their traditional state.

The houses were typically constructed with two rooms downstairs and two rooms upstairs with a tiny backyard entry leading to the outhouse. Craig actually considered shooting on location, but even though the buildings were intact, they had been brought into the modern era, with up-to-date kitchens and plastic extensions, so the set was built at the studio.

Throughout the 20th century, cobbled streets were routinely replaced by various other road surfaces, namely tarmac and asphalt – and, of course, the scarcity of cobblestones now means that such streets are aesthetically desirable.  However, the cobblestones in Spinner’s End are not an indication of affluence, but an indication of an area left behind. This is further illustrated by the rusted railings, the broken streetlights, and the boarded up windows.

These were workers houses, often funded by the owners of the mill, and therefore tied – meaning that rent was deducted from your wage before you received it.  There were benefits to being in tied accommodation, including being close to work and having a guaranteed landlord – but that was as much benefit to the mill owner as the worker.  Seeing great competition, some mill owners invested in their properties to entice workers – but Spinner’s End is not an example of this; Spinner’s End would’ve been regarded as little better than a slum even when fully occupied.

The narrow streets are indicative of when these houses were built, presumably in the late 1800s – cars were not a concern, and the attitude was to build as many houses on as small a piece of land as possible.

By the time the 90s roll around, and we see Narcissa and Bellatrix descend upon the street, Spinner’s End appears to be mostly deserted.  With the closure of traditional manual industries, families would be keen to relocate to where work could be found.  Estates which hadn’t already been cleared by the 60s would find themselves left to rack and ruin, their former occupants long gone – whether seeking a new life elsewhere, or having died.

For once, Bellatrix is not being anti-Muggle when she sneers at the Muggle dunghill; she is unnervingly accurate. It is a slum by her standards, but most importantly, it was a slum by everyone else’s standards as well.  By the time Severus was born, work should’ve been well under way to clear the area, or to renovate it.  This evidently did not occur – which itself explains how undesirable the area is; nobody wanted to spruce it up - they wanted to leave.  There were no jobs, no amenities, no services – and eventually, no people.

We often ponder why Snape remains at Spinner’s End, but perhaps there lies the answer; he wasn’t just hiding from the magical world, but he was also hiding from the Muggle world as well…

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Brick Fireplaces

I’m never quite happy with the fireplaces offered in game, so here’s a couple more!

15 swatches in EA brick textures/colors and EA wood textures in @peacemaker-ic‘s wood tones

the three-tile version is base game compatible, the two-tile version requires Parenthood

let me know if there are any issues!

Download the three-tile base game version here and the two-tile Parenthood version here (simfileshare, ad-free)

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you were a child. you were a fucking child. be gentle to your past self i beg you.

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My Pioneer Girl!!!

I wanted since I was 6 and 23 year later finally got her and I simply couldn’t be happier!!!!

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WELCOME HOME LADIES!!!!!!!!!!

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Learning to sew

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SECTIONAL LIBRARY by SSTS

New meshes

Base game compatible

68 items

Polycount: from ~50 to ~1300. All LODs [ where they’re needed ], normal maps, custom icons. The set includes 2 types of usual bookshelves, 2 types of corner bookshelves and 1 corner column [ all for tall, medium and short walls - 15 items in total ], different stackable shelves with and without books [ 26 items, I forgot to make a picture of top type A shelf with books, sorry, but it looks exactly like the one without them ], a big desk, a library steps - and of course some books [ 20 usual ones to decorate the shelves and also 5 piles just in case ]. Shelves and bookshelves are compatible with each other - you just need to adapt to put the higher shelf on the appropriate place of the previous one [ it’s quite similar to  how the curtains are hung to the windows in original game ] - so the whole set can be used in a variety of ways to create your perfect library of any height and configuration!

Textures are ALL linked, so I really wouldn’t advise you to remove any files of the set, and of course, package with word MAIN should remain in your Mods folder.

Preview pics are, as usual, pure screenshots 100% from the game - no color edit, no ReShade.

Hope you’ll find this useful - tag me if you do, I’d love to see your screenshots. Happy simming, have fun and don’t forget to read my TOU.

DOWNLOAD - Patreon Early Access Public access - 30/12

Credits go to all the creators of cc used on the preview pictures.

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Peter Pan (1953) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson

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Welcome to Clayton Park - Residential Lot Dump 01

When the roofing update prior to Cats & Dogs came out, I went on a mad building spree and made houses I couldn’t quite pull off without the added roofing types and adjustments. Due to popular demand, here are the shells for those builds. They will be part of my world makeover, as I renamed Newcrest as Clayton Park in my game, but it will be some time before I get furnished versions up.

These lots do contain cc, but its mainly limited to windows and siding. They are linked for each lot below.

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Get you someone who looks at you the way Simon looks at Harry

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Hey I’m looking for some well written Draco/oc fanfics. If happened have some favorite please send my way. Thank you so much. Have a great day/night:)

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Dianna wearing her new care bears nightgown

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Liberals will believe any conspiracy theory and that any word is code name to pedophiles, but won't listen to Jews telling them certain words are known to be actual code words for Jews used by antisemitics

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Christians no you cannot celebrate Purim

You cannot celebrate Pesach, you cannot have Seder.

You cannot celebrate any Jewish holiday.

There is no “us” :)