#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

[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)☺️

[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.

[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

[treason-and-plot]

REPLIES TO SAFFY LAMBASTING LIAM

@windermeresimblr

Wow! There's Saffy's backbone.

Yeah she's not known for holding back!

@drudragonrose

She's with a boy her own age that she actually likes. Be gone worm!

@ivorycrayon

Man, you write shades of grey so well. It’s hard to root for anybody, but it’s also hard to condemn anybody completely because all your characters’ actions are way too complex. “He’s wrong but..” “She shouldn’t have to deal with this but..” I could use your characters if I ever taught ethics class 😂 (except for Anita, that is, I always struggle to find any redeeming qualities in that lady :P)

Thank you so much Ash! I love writing morally grey characters who have questionable (but hopefully relatable) motives so it's extremely heartening to read your comment. And I love how steadfast you've always been in your opinion of Anita, lol!

@keoni-chan

I don't like this one bit. I hope Liam's brand new backbone doesn't evolve into an "if I can't have you..."-situation 😱

who knows what might have happened if fate hadn't intervened....

@dresdendarlin

Oooh it’s his snapping moment. He’s gonna do something drastic and crazier next.

@batsheba

Ok, now let's see if he, the creep Liam, can process this information?! Whatever happens I hope Saffy will be ok... I'm worried Liam will do something utterly stupid and potentially dangerous.

@oasislandingresident

Ooooh shit's about to go down!!! 🍿

@kimmiessimmies

I'm with @batsheba, this is not going to go down well with Liam...

@wannabecatwriter

Be careful, Saffron. He's in a weird mindstate now.

@bool-prop

Oh no. He's going to snap.

@muses-circle

🤦

@muses-circle

Liam will either have a meltdown right there, in the parking lot, or he'll wait until he's in the middle of class and doing something worse. I'm worried about what his breaking point will look like.

@muses-circle

And Saffron, men DO leave their wives. It's call divorce, honey. Life isn't as black and white as you think.

I didn't write Saffy's speech very well...what she was trying to say was that it's a well-known fact that married men never leave their wives for their side-pieces! She was actually quite enraged that Liam turned out to be the statistical anomaly, lol. That was the last thing she wanted to happen!

@echoweaver

Woo. Saffron's right, but wow she's still got so much growing up to do. OTOH, Liam seemed to be with her in large part because she verbally abused him. It's such a messed up puppy.

Yeah, he seems to derive a perverse satisfaction from being the victim and indulging in self-defeating behaviour. It's also not an accident that the two women in his life routinely humiliate and criticise him.😬

@sweetnovember77

Saffy's words can devastate ANYONE with strong emotions toward another person. It's like a knife to the heart.

Yeah, Saffy can be very acid-tongued. He probably deserved the wake up call but Saffy can count herself very lucky he didn't snap or do something as drastic as Stephanie.

@anamoon63

😮 This is not going to end well. I wish Saffy had been a little more diplomatic. 😔

It definitely did not end well, but fortunately for Saffy she was not the one who was impacted the most! I hope at the very least she learns some important life lessons from this whole sorry experience.

@simsaralove

I really hope this will make Mr. Yucky realize he better go live in the Twinbrook swamps and not make him do something stupid and ruin Saffy’s happiness 😭

@justanothersimsblog

I'd tell her to slap him but I think he likes that so... maybe knee him in the balls then lol

lol he is such a pathetic masochist that he would probably enjoy that too!😆

@greywardenconsort

He's a monster thru & thru

A sad, spineless, loser monster.

@streetlites

That's gotta sting. Bwahahah. Also, what did he think she was going to do? Leap into his arms? She was never like that toward him to begin with.

@mysimsloveaffair

They are both better off without each other. Saffy is doing him a favor and he doesn't even know it. SMH

Liam was always doomed by his poor life decisions and victim mentality. I'm also thinking that it was possible he had affairs as a passive-aggressive form of revenge, but didn't count on falling so heavily for Saffy. In any case, I think he got what he deserved.

[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

[zindabad]

David and Batsheba

[kimmiessimmies]

Winter 08: Dateless - Pt.2 (13/64)

When we stepped outside after dinner, Alfie spotted the ice skating rink at the square and asked me if I wanted to skate. I like ice skating,  so I agreed.

After a while, Alfie asked me if I wanted to do a spin with him. I felt a bit weird holding his hands, but it was quite fun.

Well, until we fell, haha, but I guess even that was funny.

At that point, I was getting cold, so I told him I should be heading home. He insisted on walking me home, which was nice. We talked some more on the way home. He told me about all his travels as a child with his mum, who writes travel guides. I almost felt a bit jealous, haha.

He hugged me when we said goodbye.

I liked Alfie and we had a good time. I didn't really get that butterfly feeling, but he's nice and I think we could at least be friends. Maybe more? I don't know yet.

Gameplay notes: Alfie rolled the wish to be friends with Rachel instantly. She didn’t, but she kept initiating friendly interactions with him. Spinning together on the ice was Alfie’s autonomous idea. And while I sort of expected shy Rachel to refuse, she didn’t. Upon saying goodbye, they had reached the “friend” stage and the “friendly hug” was accepted by both. Attraction Score: 7.

Alfie created by @batsheba