#CC management

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

I saw you keep your CC folder around 5GB - how do you manage that? I always look up and am around 15GB and have been trying to cut back :(

heya @bunnyafton! the heaviest parts of my downloads folder are the deco and gameplay (mods/hacks) folder - I have TONS of deco and mods over anything else right now - after those are my defaults folder and even that isn't too bonkers.

with this, i heavily HEAVILY rely on defaults for most CAS stuff and some build/buy things so those folders are never too crazy.

it mostly comes down to having a lot of self-control and deciding what you need versus what you actually don't. i regularly go through my downloads every few months to ensure I keep it at/around 5gb.

this is a long-ish post so ill keep the rest under the cut but I want to keep this public in case it may help others too!

i come from a place where i had 15gb too but I HATED!!! how I was poorly managing it, in/outside of the game. not to mention the load times and for it to just crash? oofa, I had to put a stop to that. it eventually came to a point after years of waiting 45min-1hr for it to just crash, I was spending more time loading up than playing. my machine at the time was also shit so that didn't help at all.

the day finally came and i threw my ENTIRE downloads folder into the recycle bin and let it ALL go. i started all the way over from scratch with Waverly. i picked a theme and have been maintaining it since for Waverly. every folder is hella organized. I'm careful in what I download, I clean out recolors regularly, I compress ALL the downloads I can and its a HUGE huge huge huge ass help.

sure CC management isnt for everyone and that's totally ok - I spend a lot of time ensuring my downloads folder is organized and easy for me to maintain when I get the "itch". it goes by relatively quickly (from a few hours to a few days depending on my energy level and availability to do so) and I'm back to playing instead of waiting and hoping it doesn't randomly crash for some reason. but even if it does, it was only 5-7min so no big, try again. certainly beats waiting nearly an hour every time, I do not miss those days, oofa.

it also HUGELY helps to stick with one or two themes you REALLY like, for me its all things halloween/autumn and goth. it makes it incredibly easy on me to keep that kind of CC in my folder. i know what I like so that's what I keep around/look out for when new CC is posted! this is also why I dropped the offworld subhood - I didn't play there much in general, and I never used the CC for it outside of it so I let it go entirely reducing the weight of my downloads folder even more.

[coline7373]

"For Life and Light."

Pffffiuuuuu... I didn't thought I would finish it in time but I did! *fist pump*

Just in time to thank the @codywanfirstkissbingo 's mods for such lovely prompts and to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and/or Winter's Holidays!!!!!!!!!

Big love sent to everyone!!!

💖❄🎄💖🌞💖🎄❄💖

[chiliger]

Look at those Cody’s!

A full year since Cody Day 2/2/24 and I wanted to make something for the occasion. I couldn’t fit everyone from my first piece, but imagine they’re somewhere off camera.

[morganbritton132]

Eddie, posting to Tiktok: Pro-tip to any up-and-coming musicians that are dating school teachers

Eddie: If you’re on late night talk show and the host asks if your partner is there with you that night, don’t say ‘no, he couldn’t make it. He has school in the morning.’

Eddie: Someone is going to take that in the worst possible context and you will have a lengthy meeting with your PR manager

Eddie: Lengthy

[bugflies00]

oh ok. ok . thats fine

[withacapitalp]

All this was inspired by listening to She’s So Overrated by Madilyn Bailey so fair warning LMAO. Also this got SO MUCH LONGER THAN I MEANT IT TO IM SORRY IT WAS JUST ME WRITING DOWN AN IDEA......

Okay so I’m having thoughts about modern AU lead singer Eddie Munson who’s been in the industry for years with the boys. Corroded Coffin is a staple of the metal industry, but for a few years he’s been feeling really stalled in his career and just stuck in place. He’s still making music, still performing, but he feels like he’s getting farther and farther from that kid who used to scream and sing in his closet bedroom in the shoebox apartment he used to share with Wayne. 

So when he and the boys are in an interview and the interviewee brings up how “King” Steve Harrington from The Four is trying to reinvent himself with the help of former bandmate Robin Buckley, Eddie goes off. He works himself up into a little tizzy, ranting Munson Doctrine style about how a former teen pop star trying to become some second rate folk singer isn’t anything special, and that he wouldn’t be caught dead cashing in like that. 

That Steve’s music is bad (even though he’s honestly never listened to it) and “King” Steve is overrated. How even Beiber is better than him. He’s just bullshit. 

Of course the interview goes viral, and finds its way to Steve and Robin. Robin listens to it first and she doesn’t want Steve to watch it. She knows how close things like this cut him (especially that word), and how he’s been dealing with a lot of hate from everyone even from former fans who are confused by the sharp contrast of his new music- aka the music he’s finally being allowed to write now that he’s broken away from his momager- but Steve makes her show him. 

She’s sure that she’s going to have to spend the next week rebuilding his confidence. 

And instead, Steve’s lip curls into a smile, and he grabs his songbook, telling her to find her guitar. 

Eddie wakes up five days after the interview to a huge flood of social media notifications, a dozen missed calls from the boys and his manager and his uncle. He ignores them all and goes to see what he fucked up this time. 

Eddie opens Youtube and it’s at the top of his recommendations. The thumbnail is Steve and Robin sitting together with a guitar in her lap. The title of the video is just one word. 

Bullshit. 

This can’t be good. 

Eddie listens to it even though he doesn’t want to. He’s a lot of things, but he’s not a coward. Not anymore. He listens to it because he has to know how much he’s fucked up. 

And then he listens to it again. And again. And again. 

It gets stuck in his head. All of it. Not just the song (which admittedly is pretty killer) but also hearing the flippantly mean words he had casually thrown at Steve being shoved back in his face. He had seen Steve as an abstract thing, just a symbol of everything wrong with the industry, not a real person. And now this actual human being that he’s hearing has turned all of that garbage into a song that feels more genuine then most of the music on the last two albums he wrote himself. A song that has heart, joy, and a strong current of pain underneath, especially in the bridge where Steve just sings the word bullshit over and over. 

There’s even more than that. He also sees the way Robin and Steve interact while they’re working the smiles, the jabs, the silly little way Steve bobs his head along as he listens to her play, the way they both collapse into giggles at the end as Steve directly quotes the part of the interview where Eddie said that Steve “is just another laundry basket devil trying to act like a big shot now that he’s too old for teen girls to moon over.” 

He can’t remember the last time he and the boys had that much fun making a song. 

Hell, Eddie even sees their apartment. It’s a pretty nondescript room, but he can see the wear and tear on the furniture, the cobwebs in the corners of the room, the slightly drooping houseplant with the name “Dart” lovingly painted on its pot. It feels like a home, and as Eddie looks around at the bedroom in his far too big mansion, he feels even more like a fraud. 

Eddie listens to the song on repeat for most of the morning. In the afternoon he finally answers everyone, and starts to put his plan into motion. 

By that evening he’s on the phone with Steve asking him and Robin to help Corroded Coffin write their next song. 

[neosimi]

🧺 4t2 JOMO Laundry Set 🧼

happy monday! here is something that has been in my wip folder for several weeks now. 😅 this set includes 21 items, mostly deco with a few shelves and a sink. the shelves all have 6 slots, the clothing hanging on the assembly shelf works best in the middle slot. the towels in the storage closet however, work best on the outer slots. the sink has a dirty state, it’s not the best but it’s better than nothing lol. the deco tiles are placed more easily with cheats. hmm, that should be all. as always, please lmk if there’s any issues. enjoy!~ ʕ✿˵·ᴥ·ʔ

files are compressed. collection file included. full list + polycount under the cut.

download: [sfs] | [box] ♡

credits: KKB. 

Assembly Shelf v1 - 408 polys | $200 | surfaces/shelf

Assembly Shelf v2 - 174 polys | $200 [repo]

Clothing v1 - 1241 polys | $25 | deco/sculpture

Clothing v2 - 1536 polys | $25 | deco/sculpture

Deco Tiles - 72 polys | $10 | deco/misc

Deco Tiles Corner Long - 100 polys | $10 [repo]

Deco Tiles Long - 80 polys | $10  [repo]

Deco Tiles Corner - 102 polys | $10 [repo]

Drying Machine - 1216 polys | $200 | deco/sculpture

Drying Rack - 1082 polys | $50 | deco/sculpture

Fabric Conditioner - 402 polys | $25 | deco/sculpture

Iron v2 - 510 polys | $25 | deco/sculpture

Iron v1 - 350 polys | $25 [repo]

Ironing Board - 630 polys | $50 | deco/sculpture

Laundry Detergent - 380 polys | $25 | deco/sculpture

Laundry Hamper 1246 polys | $50  | deco/sculpture

Laundry Sink - 648 polys | $200 | plumbing/sink

Liquid Laundry Detergent - 224 polys | $25 | deco/sculpture

Storage Closet - 116 polys | $200 | surfaces/shelf

Towels - 222 polys | $25 deco/sculpture

Washing Machine - 1285 polys | $200 | deco/sculpture 

☕ ko-fi?

[gorgugplushie]

IF LOVE COULD SAVE THOU HADST NOT DIED.

[metalichotchoco]

Things are hard without motivation

[lazysunjade]

M O D E S T |

the whispers all around say he has a reputation, don't believe it till I see it so I want a demonstration, and I've always learned it better with a hands on education.

cc highlight: lipstick marks by @back-9 |

[strangersteddierthings]

The Response

Part Two of The Interview [Part One] [Ao3]

With no exact time given by Robin, Eddie's left to kill time. He drags himself from the YouTube spiral to try and track down Steve on social media. After two hours, he concludes that either Steve has his (and official Corroded Coffin's) socials blocked, or Steve just doesn't have any. He's a bit baffled that people can even find Steve to send hate mail to him.

He shoots a text to Gareth. Can you find Steve on any socials?

He gets an instant reply.

DO NOT CONTACT!!!

WAIT FOR RESPONSE

DONOT MAKE THISS WORSE MUNSON

Eddie frowns down at his phone but doesn't argue. He probably would make it worse. He sends back 'k' and looks back to the laptop. Watches it auto-refresh but Robin's feed hasn't changed.

God, what will Steve have to say?

It's mostly true, that Eddie hasn't thought about Steve in years. That's been deliberate. Eddie was so furious back then. Robin wasn't wrong about him venting his feelings into a song, but how was he supposed to know Hey Steve would be the song the catch the ear of the people? And yeah, the lyrics are very unflattering.

A lot of their first songs were filled with rage. The whole first album is just their collective high school experiences. Songs about growing up in Hawkins and how shit that was for them, a song about Eddie's complicated feelings towards his dad, songs about dungeons and dragons disguised as fantasy ballads, things like that. And, of course, Hey Steve.

He can admit that years ago he reevaluated the lyrics and found it to be more harsh than was warranted. But he figured there was no point worrying about that. People exaggerate in songs all the time. The song is out, people still plead for it to be played during encore performances. Eddie hadn't thought it was hurting anyone to play it.

Hey Steve had taken Eddie less than two days to write. He did almost nothing for those two days except write. Fuck. He was still just a dumb kid when he wrote it, barely graduated high school. And the reason for writing it...

Eddie had know Steve wasn't out to his parents when he'd asked Steve to essentially runaway with him. Steve had worried about things like money, and living situations, and getting food. It had all sounded like excuses to Eddie back then. Like Steve was picking the safety of Hawkins and his parents' house over going out into the world to be with Eddie freely.

They'd fought about it. The worst fight they'd ever had. Yet, here Eddie is, a decade later and unable to recall anything that was actually said. Just a summary of that conversation exists in his mind, now. Steve wanting to wait. To save more money now that his hours at the grocery store would be changing from part time to full with him no longer being in school and able to work the morning shifts. Wait to get his car fully transferred to his name from his parents.

All things that adult Eddie can now see as reasonable. Jesus Fucking Christ. He remembers he'd given Steve some sort of ultimatum. He was leaving on the last Grey Hound from Hawkins to Indy. Steve could meet him at the bus stop or stay, but Eddie was going, with or without him.

Steve had shouted back. He knows they just got louder and nastier until Steve finally told him that he would be going without him, then, because they were over. Even as angry as Eddie had been, he'd held out hope. But that last bus left Hawkins with Eddie on it and no sign of Steve in sight.

So Eddie did what he did best. Channeled that hurt into anger and wrote a song. Never in a million years did he think that, in the very first bar they played at in Indy, they'd meet a man who wanted to take a chance with them and get them a demo. All they needed to do was get from Indy to LA. Eddie had a van and the motivation. The next year of his life was too busy for him to even think, much less worry about Steve and his breakup.

Well, that was a lie. He thought about it constantly and shoved the thoughts aside as quickly as they came. Easier to do when he had no way to check up on Steve. He left Hawkins with no laptop and a pay-per-text flip phone he'd bought at a gas station. Wayne tried his best to provide for Eddie, and that meant they'd had one cell phone between the two, and Eddie had insisted that Wayne keep it.

By the time he got a laptop and internet, Steve had blocked him on Facebook and Twitter. That was the conclusion Eddie had come to when he finally worked up the nerve to swallow his pride and apologize and couldn't find Steve on either platform. Another thing that had filled Eddie with anger and hurt. Steve had broken up with him and then made sure Eddie couldn't reach back out.

Now he wonders, did Steve block him, or did Steve delete his socials to stop the hate mail?

Eddie feels nauseous.

Fuck!

What's worse is that, before the fight, Eddie had been so sure he was in love with Steve. But how can he say that with how quickly he dropped him? With how he's acted ever since? He could justify it to himself when he was still freshly broken up with and hurting but that faded away as fame took over.

Hard to be sad about not having a boyfriend when there were plenty of people lining up to be with him.

He pulls himself from his head to look at the laptop. A new tweet shows on Robin's screen and he scrambled to turn off the auto-refresher.

It's a short tweet, and Eddie sees she's changed her name as well.

Clicking the link takes him to a YouTube video.

It starts with the camera slightly jiggling, presumably from someone hitting record. It's been set up in a recording studio. A stool in front of a mic that's suspended from the ceiling is the only thing in the frame.

"Alright, dingus, last chance to change your mind about this," Robin's voice is picked up from off screen.

"You can't talk me out of this," says a male voice, and without any thought about it, Eddie's hand flings out and slaps the space bar, pausing the video. His heart is pounding, and he has to take a few deep breaths. That was Steve's voice. Of course, it was Steve's voice, it's his statement video, but hearing it again. Hearing it spoken softly but determined.

Swallowing feels difficult. Eddie's last memory of Steve's voice was screaming. This is... this is the Steve he never thought he'd hear again, and hasn't realized how much he desperately wanted to. With shaking hands, he presses play again.

Steve steps into frame, takes a seat on the stool. He looks in the direction of the camera, and Eddie has to pause again, to take him in. His hair is longer than it was in high school, the ends of it touching his shoulders. He's got it pulled up in a half updo, keeping the hair out of his face. His face is familiar and yet so different. He certainly looks older but not in a bad way. The biggest difference is his nose; it's not as straight as it once was, like it's been broken and healed wrong. His strong, square face is as handsome as it ever was, perhaps more so now. Eddie's eyes are drawn to the two moles on his cheek; his eyes have always been drawn there. It was his favorite place to kiss Steve.

He's wearing light wash jeans and a deep blue Henley. And fuck if it doesn't make him look good.

Eddie unpauses again, and waits to hear the retribution he deserves.

"This good, Robin?"

"Yeah, you're perfectly in frame."

"Good. Uhh, hi. I'm Steve. Robin told me that there was a lot of fuss regarding a certain Corroded Coffin song, and that people wanted to hear from me. Which is wild 'cause like, I'm just some guy and I don't really have much to say-" Steve is saying, with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Steve!" Robin interrupts him, "I just had to help you move because someone threw a brick through your window! What do-"

"Okay! I get it! But that's not Corroded Coffin's fault. They do that whole anti-bullying thing! It's not like they don't address harassment and bullying. I-" Steve cuts off, seeming to remember he's on camera. His face turns pink. "We can argue this later. Uhh, anyway. There is something I want to say to Eddie Munson, so I hope he's watching."

He makes a 'give it to me' gesture and Robin enters frame, handing him an acoustic guitar. "I thought I'd answer using the one thing Eddie understands best. Music. So, uh, I wrote this song with Robin's help. Lyrics are mine but the melody is Robin. The song doesn't have a title but, uh, okay. Here it goes."

And then, Steve starts to sing, looking down at the guitar for correct finger placement more than singing into the mic but it picks him up well regardless.

"Do you think I'd give up? That this might've shook the love from me? Or that I was on the brink? How could you think, darling, I'd scare so easily? Now that it's done There's not one thing that I would change My life was a storm, since I was born. How could I fear any hurricane? If someone asked me at the end I'll tell them put me back in it-" Eddie is sitting down, and still he feels the floor fall out from under him.

"-Darling, I would do it again, ah, ah If I could hold you for a minute Darling, I'd go through it again, ah, ah."

Eddie doesn't hear the rest of the song because of the blood pounding in his ears. This can't be- it doesn't mean- after all this time? After everything that's happened, everything Eddie let happen, unintentionally or not.

His phone buzzes against his leg. He ignores it in favor of restarting the video and listening to the video from the start. He listens to the whole song and it ends without anything else. Once Steve's strummed the last chord, he just stands up, walks to the camera and the video ends.

He restarts the video again, and again, and again. Hears Steve sing How could you think I'd scare so easily and I would do it again if I could hold you for a minute and though I know my heart would break I'd tell them put me back in it.

It's through the tenth, or eleventh, playback that his phone buzzes again and he fumbles to answer blindly, unable to pull his eyes away from Steve on the screen of his laptop.

"Gare- It's not- what did I do Gare? Everything I thought Steve would have to say never came close to what he just sang. I can't- I don't know what to do," Eddie sobs into the phone.

There's a pause of silence before what is very much not Gareth's voice says, "Well, dammit Munson. I was calling to rip you a new one but you're already crying."

It takes Eddie a moment to place the voice, "Robin?"

"Unfortunately, yes," Robin says. "I think Steve's let you off easily, but I also know I kick a hornet's nest with my interview so I think we should work on getting this cleared up, both publicly and privately."

"How did you get my num-"

"Gareth. Keep up, Munson. I'd like us to be able to call off each other's fans. Your PR team and whoever you employee to do that anti-bullying campaign have done a pretty good job so far in telling people to back off, politely. Helps that Jeff has been on top of this from the beginning. Honestly, I think the best decision you've ever made in your life was making Jeff the front man of your band and not yourself. He's much more pleasant to talk to, and so good with people."

"Robin!" Eddie has to shout because Robin keeps saying words and they don't make sense. "What?"

He hears a sign from the other end of the phone. "You are annoying. You know that, Munson? I'll work with Gareth to get this done. I think we should be seen together, publicly. Maybe getting a coffee. So everyone knows we've made up, or whatever it is Gareth and I decide is happening. We should also meet up privately. There's a lot to talk about."

"I'm so confused."

"Nothing new. Now, when are you free to get on a plane to Pendleton, Oregon?"

"Pendleton?"

"Munson!" Robin snaps, "we just established that you live in a perpetual state of confusion. Instead of questioning me, how about you answer my questions. Now, when are you free?"

"Anytime."

"Smart answer. Get your ass to Pendleton by the morning of the twenty-third. I'll work with Gareth for all the other concerns. He's easier to deal with."

"Can I ask one follow up question at least!?"

"You just did but I'll allow one more before I hang up."

"Why Pendleton?"

"It's the nearest airport to our destination. I am not having a private conversation with you in California. I don't want to be caught speaking to you until Gareth and I have a chance to work out the details."

And then Robin hangs up.

Eddie leans forward and restarts the video on his laptop before looking up plane tickets. Fixing things with Robin might be the first step in ever getting try and, he doesn't know, apologize to Steve? Maybe even have a conversation one day.

He doesn't deserve that chance, he thinks, but he's a bad enough person to want it anyway.

[head---ache]

OUUUUGHHHHHH I JUST OPENED THE SIMS IN MY NEW PC AND WAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHH i haven't been able to get all of my mods from my old pc bc its so fucking slow so ive just been doing it in chunks. but for a second i thought, ykw, maybe i dont need this much cc! i can make my sims look good without it! and. an attempt was made.

emmie looks cute but she doesnt look like herself at all because i didnt get any toddler cc (and shes a toddler). shadow looks just fine but hes not as cunty as my other shadow sim was!!!! that mf was mothering he was serving cunt slaying the house down!!!! and sonic looks. atrocious. he looks terrible. hes disgusting i hate him. and i havent even looked at my other sims!!! theyre probably all bald and naked!!!!!!!!!!!

RRRRRRAAAAAAAA I NEED MY MODS BACK I NEED MY CC I MISS MY OLD SIMS

[letomills]

As the world continues to crash and burn, here are 6 FtM Butterflysims hairs in Poppet V2 naturals.

All are under 14k poly, they're for PM-EM with the greys on separate files, binned, familied, tootipped, compressorized. Everything under the cut.

Download Bfly 36: SFS / Mega

Textures for the hair itself are taken from Jellybeanery's F version except for the grey (Jellybeanery's version is for PF-AF, no accessory). The accessory bead texture is based on Butterflysims's.

Polycount: 12.2k. More details on the mesh here.

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Download Bfly 54: SFS / Mega

Texture taken from the F version done by @poppet-sims.

Polycount: 10.5k. More details on the mesh here.

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Download Bfly 56: SFS / Mega

Texture taken from the F version done by @poppet-sims.

Polycount: 11.9k. More details on the mesh here.

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Download Bfly 60: SFS / Mega

Texture taken from the F version done by @poppet-sims.

Polycount: 13.2k. More details on the mesh here.

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Download Bfly 81: SFS / Mega

Texture taken from the F version done by @poppet-sims.

Polycount: 13.5k. More details on the mesh here.

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Download Bfly 153: SFS / Mega

Texture taken from the F version done by @poppet-sims.

Polycount: 12.3k. More details on the mesh here.

[amidst-wonderland]

OLIVIA DE RIVA / "ROOK" | DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD

↠ "Neve, meet Rook. Harding and I found her a while back, thought we could use an expert on trouble."

[dangerouslyfreejellyfish]

Infant Eye Updates

Real Eyes

September V1

September V2

Vex'ahlia

Andrina

Airy

Siren

Lioness

Sweetie

Mana

All files for these eyes have been updated to include infants, just redownload the files and overwrite the originals ^^

I still have lots of other sets to get round to updating, so at some point there'll likely be a 2nd version of this post :')

[keirosims]

Feelin Horny