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what I really like about all these vintage couple’s portraits is that there is a very certain romatic decorum kept up – certain themes and poses – which, while of course being the mainstream preferred view of couples repeated throughout many studios, are just… so nice to look at. 

this staged affection, a mix of theatricality and intimacy, the couple holding still for a couple of moments and now immortalised in a very set sequence of embraces and kisses. there is a charm to it even when I can’t tell whether this was a genuine couple portait or just actors hired by the photographer.

the kiss on the bare shoulder (eyes perfectly averted), the cheek caress, the piano and the violin, the interrupted embrace, the woman tilted back as in a half-stopped dance…

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A Timeline of Women’s Fashion from 1784-1970 (source: http://kottke.org/17/07/a-timeline-of-womens-fashion-from-1784-1970)

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I'm making introductory posts on my other blogs so I thought I'd make one here.

Hello, I'm Asher. I'm 35+, queer (she/they), Australian and, (you may have guessed) Jewish. I'm a long-time Sims player since Sims 1.

I made this blog to document my Decades Challenge which is in its second reboot with no end in sight (I blame the ADHD). I'm feeling a bit paralysed with it but am working on continuing.

My current legacy is the Rozenfeld Legacy, documenting a Jewish family as they navigate life in a shtetl in Simichev.

My personal blog is @emotionalsupportgolem where you're welcome to follow me.

I have another fandom blog at @veiljumpernyssa which is mostly Dragon Age and my writing and art.

Anons are turned on, but I delete overly rude and aggressive asks. I'm not your punching bag and I don't have to put up with verbal abuse. I'm more than happy to answer otherwise.

I'm WCIF friendly. I have a finds blog at @jewishsimming-finds

This blog is mostly SFW, but NSFW is tagged appropriately. Minors are OK to follow, just be aware I'm old enough to be your mum.

If you're also a Jewish simmer hit me up please cause I want to see more Jewish legacies!

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Welp, I tried to load the game twice and both times it crashed my computer so I won't be doing that

OK yall. I realised that I have an EA Play Pro membership and I don't remember why but I got the Sims 2 bundle thing. I'm gonna load it up and relive the nostalgic potato graphics

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OK yall. I realised that I have an EA Play Pro membership and I don't remember why but I got the Sims 2 bundle thing. I'm gonna load it up and relive the nostalgic potato graphics

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I'm wondering if you could make a kibbutz in the Sims using the rental system? Set it up on a big lot - you could set up different small houses as rooms?

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tfw you open up Blender after a while and you realise you've just utterly forgotten how to use it

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Took some pics when I was playtesting and IDK, I think I need to fill in that bit between the pavilion and the mausoleum with some landscaping.

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When you're planning a save file, do you create the buildings and houses first, or do you create the townies first?

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Expanded the cemetery to a 40 x 30 lot in Windenburg (just named it "Chevra Kadisha" which means 'burial society', but I'll probably rename it). I'm still working on it but it's looking nice.

If anyone wants the completed one, let me know. It'll be CC free.

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Important things to know about Jews - we love drama and we love to party. If you can incorporate the two into gameplay you'll be right I reckon

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I am starting a ultimate decades challenge for Russian Jews, any tips on how to focus it on being more Jewish centric? I already have historical events I want them to go through, and holidays to celebrate, but any just gameplay tips? - another jewish simmer

Shalom~

Key words: Jewish joy.

You can use the event system for Jewish cultural and social events!

Family Shabbat dinners (or even invite friends and neighbours), weddings, bnei mitzvot, bris, tashlich, Purim shpiels, Torah study sessions.

Have your Sims know everyone in their little community. Create friendships (and rivalries). Have a gossipmonger. I know it's stereotypical, but there's always one in a village who loves other people's drama. Have Gittel the grocer's wife hold a lasting grudge against Perl the fishmonger's wife because she and her nudnik son turned down Gittel's daughter for marriage, and who does she think she is, anyway?

Have young Yitzhak Ben-Simon and Golda Baldinger secretly meet by the creek every Thursday afternoon to discuss her efforts to subtly influence her parents towards a match.

Speaking of secret meetings, did you know that Mordechai lingers just a *little* too long at the fruit seller Frieda's stand every market day, and who knows what that's about? Her husband, z"l, ran the store until his death, a few years ago, and rumour has it that she wants to remarry. They say Mordechai isn't her only suitor, but the widow Nachum has his eyes on her as well.

(You are welcome to steal these ideas, i will likely also use them for my own gameplay)

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I did build that cemetery in Ravenwood, but I'm actually thinking of going back to Windenburg for my shtetl save. Windenburg is a huge lot (27 lots) and I think there's more scope for building there.

Out of interest I counted the number of lots each world has and noted it's decreased over the years, with new worlds usually having 12 or 13. Though I will say Windenburg is an outlier.

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I haven't built anything in the Sims for a while, so I decided to start with a cemetery.

I love the new EP aesthetic.

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Many articles on shtetls tell about how the shtetl has been idealised and almost fetishized as some sort of pastoralist fantasy when the reality fell far from this

Which is a legit critique IMO

The most interesting thing I've gleaned from researching is that there was a significant amount of class difference in the town. Even though Eastern European Jews were oppressed in themselves, there was definitely an amount of income disparity between groups, and shtetl residents ranged from impoverished to relatively wealthy

So for me the essence of the shtetl is not so much a pastoralist ideal as it is about small-town mentality and class difference

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SFS is still downloading at 7kb/s please kill me

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Stranger Springs: Winter, December 1974

The beginning of my story starts at the end. My name is Desiree Craft, And this is the story of how I died.

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