#batsheba

[themaresnest-dumblr]

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes to this.

How dare they try to effectively steal back from us what we have paid for?

Time these funking bar stewards were put in their places and reminded that we, the consumer, are the masters, and you the producers are our servants for as long as we will employ you to entertain us - not the other way round.

That's how things work in the very capitalist system you are always so eager to justify on 'principle' when it suits you. Well, that cuts both ways.

Stop planned obsolescence

in video games!

If you live in the EU, please sign the EU petition to Stop Killing Games. If not, please spread the word!

[eyesofthetrees]

Young Frieda envied by Batsheba

Cassiel Silverwing

[treason-and-plot]

@batsheba @drudragonrose @zosa95 thank you for providing me with some epic entertainment tonight! Now I'm off to watch Blades of Glory while I fold the washing!;=)

[laurademelza]

Sims 3 CC - Paintings by Gustav Klimt

500 Followers Gift 1/? (Request)

At the request of my lovely friend @batsheba, here are some paintings by Gustav Klimt that I made a while ago and just haven't uploaded yet. Thank you Bats!

Please keep reading for pictures, requirements, and the download links!

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was an Austrian painter, noted for his use of gold in his most famous works. His artwork can most broadly be categorized under the Art Nouveau movement, however, he was a significant member of the smaller Vienna Succession movement. His paintings feature themes of romance, myth, and the female figure. But he also did some cute lil paintings of chickens and flowers that I like too :)

One file containing 3 presets with a different painting for each preset and requires Pets. In order from left to right: "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" (1907) -- "Portrait of a Lady" (ca 1916-1917) -- "Hygieia" (1900-1907)

"Church in Unterach on the Attersee" (1916) This is a large 3-tile-wide poster and requires Showtime.

The famous painting "The Kiss" (1907-08) This painting requires High End Loft Stuff.

"The Stoclet Friezes" painted for a palace in Brussels from 1905-1911. One preset, 3 panels of the same mesh. Base game mesh (no EP requirement).

"Silhouettes I & II" (1912) This requires Late Night.

"Portrait of Emilie Flöge" (1902) This requires Late Night.

"Farm Garden with Sunflowers" (1912) This requires Late Night.

"Malcesine at the Gardasee" (1913) Base game mesh (no EP requirement).

Different view of the same "Farm Garden with Sunflowers" (1912) above. Base game mesh (no EP requirement).

"Garden Path with Chickens" (1916) Base game mesh (no EP requirement).

"Music I" (1895) Base game mesh (no EP requirement).

Hope everything is clear and you enjoy having these paintings in your game! Please let me know if you have any other art history Sims 3 CC requests :)

Download Links (Simfileshare - free, no ads)

Individual Paintings (11 Files)

Merged Paintings (1 File)

[yourpicasso25]

It's the week end!

And since it is, lucky yous, get to see the las evolution in Vogoel les mouettes

lovely animal...

So there has been quite a bit of progress

This is the horse part of Vogoel, except for the local FR3 les Mouettes (Tv and radio), and the (very) local newspaper "le Plumier Argenté"

So this is more or less complete, now to the planning:

So, as @batsheba suggested, we will have a spooky castle near the biggest waterfall of them all, with a shared parking lot for a rock climbing site, as friend @samkat10423 said because one needs to fill graveyards.

Next, I was thingking either spooky forest with crazy inventor and a mine... or maybe a balooning station? I'm not sure

The very last bit will be "L'ile" (original,I know), with the famous Anse Houchpette.

And I don't think anyone will get the silly, silly pun on a 1970's French film here (yup, I'm an old)

So this little part will have the ferryman house... and a Ferry, to get all those tourists over.

Now, I have a question: Do you prefer Pirate theme for the Island, or more of a supernatural theme? Both can be good but I'm not fixed yet. What do you guys think?

And I will see you all next week with farms, orchards and nectary... Cheers!

[kimmiessimmies]

Checking in with Rachel...

Twelve online messages...*

...and one letter hidden in a library book!**

That was way more than dear sweet Rachel expected!

*Translated from Simlish for easy reading, bigger version below.

**Malte Nerhus decided to write instead of email. We'll go into that later.

Meet the men!

For this post I used the original pictures by their creators. In my game, with my defaults, some of them may look ever so slightly different. I used the ages provided or filled in age myself when I didn't know.

Thank you @nocturnalazure, @sushiikinsss, @greenplumbboblover, @sircesimblr, @flotheory, @nornities, @echoweaver, @batsheba and @echomoria for this wonderful and very diverse group of men!

[fragrantblossoms]

J. (Jacob) van Zuijlen. Batsheba and Magdalena / Greenland East / Ammassalik District, March 16, 1934.

[tanakhsexywoman]

TANAKH SEXYWOMAN ULTIMATE POLL

You've asked for it, so here you have it! The Tanakh Sexywoman Tumblr poll. (not affiliated with Tanakhsexyman)

-The pairings have been randomly generated.

-Sexual assault victims like Tamar bat David and Dina are not included, because it teeters on victim-blaming to call them sexy, even in jest.

Round 1:

Deborah vs. Vashti

Batsheba vs. Serah daughter of Asher

Queen of Sheba vs. Sarah

Rahab vs. Jezebel

The anthropomorphized Jerusalem in Lamentations vs. Tzipporah

Jephthah's daughter vs. Whoever Song of Songs was written about

Eve vs. Pharaoh's daughter

Ruth vs. Potiphar's wife

Rachel vs. Huldah

Naomi vs. Abigail

Zelophehad's daughters vs. Tamar

Gomer vs. Jael

Hannah vs. Jochebed

Hagar vs. Delilah

The Witch of Endor vs. Queen Esther

Miriam vs. Abishag

*The polls will go live at 9:00 AM 2/8 EST*

Happy voting!

Round Two List

Round Three List

Semifinals

[icemunmun-spicy-scalpel]

Back!

Well took a 2 week break from the sims side of tumblr and am feeling a bit better about things.

Thank you so much @medleymisty​ @ yanniesissy @ astargatelover @ zandalorscat @ squidsponge @ blossomflora @ busydoinganything @ charmy-sims @ laurademelza @ meerest @ remysa @ msteaqueen @ samkat10423 @ sharris8 @ batsheba @ descendantdragfi @ lorrybailey

I have read all of your messages and am so greatful that you guys took the time to say those lovely and helpful things. Thank you so so much!!

I think I need some more treatment for my lingering post partum depression. PPD can be so brutal. Its as if you have a continuous blanket over your head and no matter what you cannot shrug it off. Makes everything in life seem bad and hopeless.

 I am also finally taking a 5 day vacation after 2 years! Hoping that will help me! Will post pictures 😃

[pudding-parade]

@batsheba and maybe @beatricecrumplebottom

I've got waaaaaaaaaay more to say than will fit in a standard reply, so…

Not gonna lie, Planet Zoo has a learning curve. Quite a steep one, in fact. There are so many aspects to it. There's acquiring animals and managing them and building habitats for them (they all have specific requirements) and breeding them for good genes while avoiding inbreeding. There's building staff and guest facilities and managing staff and guest needs. There's designing the zoo layout as a whole. There's a research tree to unlock stuff relating to the animals as well as different aspects of the zoo, like better power generation as well as different styles of building pieces. And much more.

It's a lot, frankly, and I'm still learning. It does have a mode called Career Mode, where you play guided scenarios. The early scenarios serve as a half-assed (at best) tutorial. The good news is that there are a lot of good videos and tutorial playlists on YouTube made by various people. I've learned the most from these three YouTubers, so I'm linking to the first episode of each of their tutorial playlists, but all of them have lots of other videos, too.

You can watch a bit before buying the game to help you decide if it's for you. I'll warn you that if you get everything, it adds up to a tidy amount of money. But, it usually goes on sale on Steam's summer and winter sales, and you can buy bundles that way for not too much money. (I got the "Ultimate Bundle," during the summer sale last year, which was the base game plus all the DLCs up to the time I bought it, for I think about 80USD, which was more than half off. The DLCs are 10USD each normally and they usually come with about five new animals as well as a buuuuuunch of stuff for building/decorating.) Also, two of the above linked YouTube creators have affiliations to Instant Gaming that will give you a good discount any time on the base game and DLCs.

As for the building, specifically…It can be very easy. The game comes with blueprints, which are pre-built things that you can just plunk down wherever. They include everything from staff and guest buildings to different climbing frames for arboreal animals to full habitats for all kinds of animals. Many of them are pretty nice-looking, even. You can also download tons of player-made blueprints from the Steam workshop for the game if you get the game via Steam...or even if you don't, if you know some tricks. So, if you go that route, you hardly do any building at all. It's all just figuring out a layout for your zoo (and that can be hard, since you start with just a big, blank plot of land and a pre-built entryway building) and then plunking down blueprints and getting right into the animals.

However, much like in Sims games, I like to build for myself, and the system in PZ is frankly amazing. I wish the Sims games were like it. It can be very, very fiddly, especially if you're a perfectionist, but it's also amazing. You have the "basic" pieces which are wall, floor, and roof pieces made of many different materials and that have different shapes, like for making curved walls. These snap to an adjustable-size grid and form the basis of a building. But from there, there are hundreds (thousands, if you have DLCs) of pieces that don't snap to a grid (but there are controls for them so you can line things up properly, for instance). The pieces that don't snap to the grid can all be moved laterally in all three dimensions as well as rotated on all three axes, and can be used as, for instance, trims on buildings, so you have complete freedom with them and you can do really creative things to decorate your buildings and habitats. This is why I can spend many hours building one frickin' barn. LOL

Everything is keyboard-and-mouse, as the game is currently PC-only, though it's rumored that it's coming to consoles soon. There are many hot keys pre-assigned, and everything is easily controlled with a mouse.

There are lots of modes to the game, the main one being franchise mode, which starts you with a limited amount of money and is connected to an online server. Animals are traded between players. It can be hard because many players set frankly ridiculous prices on the animals they sell, but it's part of the challenge of the mode. There's a challenge mode, which is basically the same as franchise only not online, so if you don't want to deal with ridiculous players and/or can't/don't want to play with the internet turned on, you can. In that, all of the animals you can buy are created by the game, not other players. There's "career" mode I mentioned. There are timed scenarios, which I've never played so I don't know what they're like. Annnnnnd there's the sandbox mode, which has no money limits and no research requirements (unless you impose them on yourself) and has all sorts of controls that you can use to customize your experience. There are always four of every animal (two of each sex) available in the market, which as in the challenge mode are game-generated. (Game-generated animals generally have sucky genes.)

So, yeah, I love the game, and would highly recommend it, especially if you like to build stuff and, of course, like animals. Definitely watch some of the videos I linked, though, because they'll give you a better idea of what the game is like.

[simlicious]

Floral pattern WIPs! Some are older, some are new. Shown in their default colors (but may change until release). I am especially proud of the one in warm colors on the chair on the left. I forgot to count the hours I sat on that one, but it was so worth it! I know two people specifically who will be so very happy with these (@batsheba, @greenplumbboblover)☺️

[gaiahypothesims]

Get to know me tag

Rules: you can use any sims game to answer these questions.

Thank you to my lil @rollo-rolls for tagging me ♥ !

Your three traits: Artistic, absent minded, family oriented (though not in the “I want 10+ children way).

Your aspiration: Painter extraordinaire, or Famous Author. In reality I want to be an independently wealthy woman of leisure.

In game world you’d live in: Sunlit Tides of course, but the version with the city and houseboats,

Most used pack(s): Late Nigt, ITF, IP or Gen

Favourite decor object (no cc): plants for sure.

Something you want in the game: for it to run on 64bit so it didn���t run like such shit. If I can play 2020+ games on high everything and TS3 ran the same way I’d be un-fucking-stoppable. I’d have 500 stories going and finished.

What colour is your plumbob rn: Yellow.

Tagging (feel free to ignore): @batsheba @doka-chan @bast-sims @treason-and-plot

[zindabad]

David and Batsheba

[treason-and-plot]

REPLIES TO ROY'S SULKING

@thickness1988

Anya I think it time to leave if you don’t want to deal with this for the rest of your life

Yes, but she should take the trip to Paris first!😁

@wannabecatwriter

Never thought Anya would be the first woman to properly call this guy out like this.

She has her tipping point, and Roy just activated it! I think the situation with her father has also made her a lot more intolerant of men's erm, disappointing behaviour.

@justanothersimsblog

Anya, I like you, but I kinda want to suggest you go and enjoy Paris regardless

I couldn't agree more! Although the fact that she doesn't care that she might be risking her trip does show that she has very strong principles. If it was me I'd be waiting until I got on the plane to rip him a new one!😄

@kscriba

I second this lol Also so she and Mia can have a crossover ;)

@gittessimsadventuresog

ooh yes just a solo girls trip

That would be so tempting, but she really does love him despite his flaws and was so looking forward to going to the concert with him and holidaying together in the romance capital of the world. He just pushed her that little bit too far when they were in the VIP lounge and she lost her temper. I don't think Roy even realised she had a temper prior to this!

@pixeldistractions

I think Anya is answering all of her own questions already.

Yeah, Roy can continue to sulk, it's unlikely he'd have anything of value to contribute to the conversation any way!😄

@batsheba

And he handles it like any manchild would, LOL, by sulking and passive aggression.... seriously Roy!

Sulking and passive aggression would tip me over the edge...I'd much prefer confrontation and active aggression, lol!

@parystrange

Girl, just collect your luggage and leave! Got to paris yourself or go home. Don't pander to his bullshit.

@zosa95

Manbaby, indeed! I’d get on the plane with or without him lol

@parystrange and @zosa95 I know that would be the most sensible thing to do but tragically I think she'd feel too guilty to fly to Paris without him. She'd feel as if she was taking advantage of him, or that she was acting like a gold digger. And despite his infuriating behaviour, she still loves him. She doesn't want to go to Paris by herself.

@muses-circle

Roy is already good at making a fool of himself in public, Anya. No need to make it worse. Might want to consider walking away if he refuses to talk, though.

@gittessimsadventuresog

manbaby alert

@sweetnovember77

"Can we discuss ways to resolve this?” should have been the initial proposal instead of launching insults. You can't speak to people in that manner in real life and anticipate their cooperation. I hope Roy’s pride isn’t too damaged, but everything occurs for a purpose. Perhaps Anya should confront her disappointment in her father. I believe that concern is causing her patience to dwindle.

That's a very perspicacious comment regarding Anya's father. Her tolerance of BS and problematic behaviour is at an all-time low thanks to the recent revelations, and she would not have been getting much sleep lately either which would have further eroded her patience. However I think she was totally fair to criticise Roy for missing the plane and for being so blase about the whole situation even if her delivery may have been a little...harsh. But on the other hand, there are many who have applauded her for her take no prisoners approach!

@greywardenconsort

Isn't this Roy's vacation too? Was he being a dunderhead? Yes but he was having a laugh & a drink with a friend and Anya's traveled before, she knows how to see when the plane is boarding or go ask anyway. Is she HIS partner in this adventure just a passenger princess? How about an "oh hey honey we need to get to the gate or we'll miss our flight. Johno so nice to meet you I hope to see you again when we aren't so pressed for time. Let's get a move on honey" Like an adult.

Until recently poor Anya was labouring under the misapprehension that a successful, wealthy professional who was twelve years her senior would also be someone who was responsible, mature, and level-headed. Roy can definitely be all those things in the boardroom, but in his personal life he all too often lets his party animal trait rule, particularly when he is in holiday mode as he is here! Interestingly Anya doesn't seem to mind too much about his immaturity or lack of responsibility when he's sharing drugs with her and nightclubbing till 9 in the morning, so I think her judgment of Roy at the airport could definitely be viewed as being a little bit hypocritical. Yes, it's true she could also have taken on the full responsibility of ensuring they didn't miss their flight, but that is not a sexy power dynamic and I don't blame her for wanting to avoid being the 'take charge' person in the relationship, although it's becoming more and more apparent that in many situations she's going to have to take on that role. Anyway, when she asked Roy whether they should be making their way to the gate but he brushed off her concerns and told her that the plane wouldn't leave without them and that an announcement would be made on the VIP Lounge's PA system. It was her first time visiting a VIP lounge, and she made the fatal error of trusting Roy's word. I don't blame her for being angry with him for telling her fibs.

@sweetnovember77

THIS! Anya's behavior was entirely unacceptable. Roy deserves an apology.

@coreene-simblr

She told him that they should be going to the Gate. Roy insisted they were going to announce it in the lounge...

Absolutely! And she had never been inside a VIP lounge before, whereas Roy was a seasoned visitor. She believed him when he said the plane wouldn't leave without them and that an announcement would be made. Why shouldn't she? And when it turned out that he was fibbing/ talking out his arse, she was understandably angry.

@greywardenconsort

@coreene-simblr Airlines have apps that will update you on the flight status. I would expect someone travel savvy like Anya (She & Roy reconnected in an airport) would know that. I know if I was traveling with a partner I would have that and know our flight number and gate and departure time. So I don't think that Roy not knowing gets her off the hook for her part in this kerfuffle.

Good points, but again she trusted Roy when he said that the plane wouldn't leave without them etc and as mentioned previously she also thought she could trust him to be responsible and take the lead. Obviously she made an error of judgement, and this is probably one of the reasons it's often said that you never really know someone until you travel with them!

@nectar-cellar

i love all the extras you cast for these crowded public scenes

Thank you! I have a lot of fun dressing them and posing them. It's time-consuming but rewarding. And the fact that you love them makes it even more so!

@coreene-simblr

Sulking and not talking is definitely something an adult would do Roy xD can't be too mad at Anya for not leaving as someone who gives idiots way too many chances, so I get it.

And she still loves him, even if the scales are slowly falling from her eyes! This is the first fight real they've had, and while it's unfortunate it had to happen on the way to what should have been the most romantic trip of their lives, maybe it could signal a promising new chapter in their relationship...one that's more honest, empathetic, and not burdened with unrealistic expectations.

[laurademelza]

Maybelline and Chaim's house, part 2

It's one of the hillside ones

Chaim likes dancing to romantic French music

This house tour is dedicated to my friend @batsheba

[towerofbabybell]

i understand why kiddie bible stuff will omit certain parts, but i have a problem with how these narratives are sanitized otherwise. i hate how that king david (1985) movie portrayed uriah the hittite as an abusive asshole to make david look good. BUT then they kept that part where the prophet natan chastises david for having sinned which just doesn't even makes sense anymore. they miss the entire point of one the biggest lessons in the hebrew bible: every human being is flawed, even the greatest people fuck up!

david's affair with batsheba is really interesting to me because i love me a slutty david moment but also because the aftermath of it (eg. batsheva's first born to david dies) has been a challenging part for me i did end up gaining insight from it. i really love david but it's so annoying how people take away what's truly interesting about him.

the way how i engage with these texts would probably give a homophobe an anneurysm because of how often i joke about david and jonathan having fucked, but one thing about me is that i don't contribute to the sanitization of david's character or any biblical figure of that matter. and if we're being real, these flaws and weaknesses make up a large part of the appeal.