#cc lapis

[viaphni]

Nonononono why isn't anybody talking about this WHY ISN'T ANYBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS

Lapis says "COME ON!" and it triggers something in Diamond and he doesn't know why. It gives him bad memories with no source and no familiarity, nothing to pull from or gain in their presence

He doesn't know why it makes him feel that way

And what he doesn't remember is the way Balance always said that, that was Balance's catchphrase, that was funny! It was a joke! It was supposed to be a good laugh for everyone something to recall--

But for Diamond, it was murdering Bedrock, the power of Origin, of GOD, surging through him in a firey rage. For Diamond it was the argument in front of the King's Auditorium, "Pain is a teacher, Diamond," for him it was Abe dying and then turning out to be never dead at all, only gone in betrayal, for Diamond it was Origin sculpting him like a statue and chipping away all of the undesirable memories and moments and forming him back into nothing over and over, erasing every lesson and every loss

For Diamond that WAS the loss

AND DIAMOND HAS THE CAPABILITY TO SENSE THAT??????? He has the ability to recognize familiarity in things?? He?? Origin allowed that to happen????

is Origin's manipulation falling out of maintenance? Could this relate to the theory that he's become Chaotic??? Why Is Nobody Talking About This This Is Huge

im losing my marbles over this WDYM HES RESISTING THE POWER OF GOD 💀💀💀

[kanonbreakerz]

Credits: @iowaisms, @icchixxxxxx1, @nell-le, @saruin, @mochizencc, @rimings, @mmsims, @northernsiberiawinds, murphy-sims, sayoko, elliesimple

[femboytrait]

happy birthday, jade and lapis!!

[rosenight143]

I am just going to leave this here

[cursed-collective]

Guys I had a consistent posting schedule and then something happened. I am not trying to be ominous I genuinely have clue O.o

Anyways...Hiiiiiiiiiiiii, hope everyone is doing ok!

[ryttu3k-sims]

~rawr~

A lapis lazuli dragon for @gloomiegalaxie's Femboy Friday! Largely inspired by @xandezsims' funky crystal spike set and @strangegrapefruit's lovely horns. CC beneath the cut.

cc used: @dangerouslyfreejellyfish (eyeshadow) | @feralpoodles (face crystals) | @gigglecoffin / rottenmothboy (contacts) | @helgatisha (cas background) | @j3lly-fish (skin overlay)

@lady-moriel (tail) | @nell-le (tights) | @noodlescc (skin colour) | @oydis (hair) | @pralinesims (nose ring)

@pyxiidis (lipgloss, scales) | @rebouks (cas lighting) | @redearcat (gloves) | @regina-raven (corset, leg band) | s4simomo (rings) | @saruin (skin, body preset, teeth, collar)

strangegrapefruit (horns) | @tekri (ears) | @trillyke (boots) | @ts4eve (arm band) | @valhallansim (face paint) | xandezsims (spikes, nails)

[whencyclopedia]

Caesarea Maritima's Role in the Mediterranean Trade

Caesarea Maritima was located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Built from the ground up in 22-10 BCE by Rome's client king, Herod the Great (r. 37-4 BCE), its location in relation to ship traffic and proximity to historical trade routes indicates a purposeful plan to capture income, making Caesarea a commercial gateway to the West.

Roman Harbor Scene

Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA)

Major Players

The context for Caesarea's existence lies in Rome's rivalry with Parthia: Rome's ablest competitor. With the defeat at the Battle of Carrhae, 53 BCE, and retreat from Media in 36 BCE, the failure to take Parthia's lucrative northern silk routes through Mesopotamia caused Rome to sue for peace in 20 BCE. As a result, Rome's efforts to round out its dominance in the Mediterranean Sea and the Near East took on a commercial tone. In an attempt to control the lucrative southern east/west trade routes through Arabia and the Red Sea, Caesarea would serve as the springboard. As a key hub in the Eastern trade network of ancient Rome, Caesarea's connections to major players in the early centuries of the first millennium would include Gaza, Petra, Sidon, Tyre, Alexandria, and consumer cities like Bostra. Further afield were the commercial centers of Antioch and Patara.

As a major commercial center in the northern areas of the Mediterranean, Antioch benefited from its location at the western terminus of the Silk Road of Mesopotamia. Besides being a major center of wine and olive oil production and the fulling of cloth products, Antioch played a major role in the distribution of silk from China, lapis lazuli from ancient Afghanistan, dye-works from the Levant, and weaved silk from Damascus.

West of Antioch, on the southern coast of Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), was the coastal city of Patara, providing export service. As evidence for the traditional production of agricultural goods and animal husbandry in Anatolia reaches back to the first centuries of the 2nd millennium BCE, the production of Anatolian copper, gold, silver, iron, and lead was documented by Pliny and Strabo. As James Muhly adds:

Anatolia is a land blessed with abundant natural resources, including a wealth of mineral deposits and abundant forests, the two elements necessary for a major metal industry. Recent calculations provide the following figures: 415 major copper-rich zones, more than 136 complex lead-zinc-copper ore deposits, and almost 200 silver-lead deposits, as well as numerous deposits of gold, zinc, antimony, arsenic, and iron. (858-59)

Modern surveys also confirm that, from 3000 BCE to the Ottoman period, Anatolia was an important producer of copper and possibly tin, essential ingredients of bronze.

Then, sharing the eastern coast of the Mediterranean are the two Phoenician city-states of Sidon and Tyre. As Caesarea was built over the ruins of Straton's Tower - named after King Straton I (r. 365-352 BCE) of Sidon - Strabo reports it had its own "station for vessels" (16.2.27). With its location in the midst of shipping and trade routes north of Alexandria and 120 km between Gaza and Sidon, Straton's Tower reflects Sidon's scale of commercial influence. Once providing ships and goods for Persia, Sidon was also an important manufacturer of luxury goods such as glass, dyes, and embroidered garments. Just south of Sidon, the island of Tyre was also a commercial powerhouse. Besides its famous purple-dyed cloth, according to the biblical account in 1 Kings 7:13-45, Solomon sought help from Tyre to manufacture and furnish bronze finished products for the temple.

Roman Rule in the Levant, c. 200 CE

Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND)

Though their spheres of commercial influence were reduced with the control of the Phoenician coast by the Seleucid Empire (312-63 BCE), then by the Romans, Sidon, and Tyre would continue to play a part in the overall network of trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. Conversely, while Tyre and Sidon were known for their finished products, west of the Nile on the northern coast of Africa, Alexandria shipped goods from Egypt. Besides the bulk manufacturing and export of textiles and papyrus, with Rome as its main consumer, Egypt commonly shipped its oil and grain products aboard the famous Alexandrian ships. One such ship, the Isis, as described by Lucian, had a length of 55 meters (180 ft) and a beam of 14 meters (45 ft); with a cargo hold depth of 13.5 meters (44 ft), it could carry 1200 tons of product.

Finally, within Caesarea's direct orbit were the important cities of Gaza, Petra, and Bostra. Gaza served as a conduit to Western markets, receiving goods from Africa, Arabia, India, and Indonesia, the most lucrative of which would have been pepper and frankincense. Gaza was one of the first cities to come under Caesarea's direct control when Augustus (r. 31 BCE to 14 CE) granted it to Herod in 30 BCE. However, as the Nabateans of Petra were major traders and middlemen for goods coming from the East through Arabia and the Red Sea by way of their port Leuce, Roman interest in Gaza, Petra, and Red Sea connections would be fully realized when the Roman emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 CE) annexed the Nabatean Kingdom as the Provincia Arabia in 106 CE. In addition, important consumer cities within Caesarea's regional neighborhood would include Jerusalem, Samaria, and Bostra. For Rome – perhaps to cut out Nabatean middlemen – Bostra's commercial importance would be elevated when it later usurped Petra as the trading center of the region to become the Roman capital of Arabia, after which a road was quickly constructed to connect Bostra to the Red Sea.

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[charismatictrait]

135 hairs in afterglow

just dumping this huge ass folder of afterglow hairs, these are all the hairs i've done (besides the alpha edits i've made that i need to upload individually). if u need a preview here:

Download here! (list + credits under the cut)

credits: @rented-space , TNW, @redsimmer-blog, @yakumtsaki, @trappingsims2, @buckleysims, @memento-sims, @coloresurbanos, @arethabee, @falkii, @mazexworld, @miniculesim, buckgrunt, @bustedpixels, @hazelpuff, @clumsyalienn, automaticme, curiousxsubject, @wistfulpoltergeistrgeist, @deedee-sims, @xxblacksims, @applewatersugar, @platinumaspiration, @serenity-cc, @analog-mothman, @okruee, @simandy, @simborg, @simstrouble, @uxji, @delcowebneytwo, @wildpixel, @withlovefromsimtown, Aelia, Ale312, Agustin, @fanseelamb, anto/alesso/coolsims, Bucket, @powerpcinside, @casual-sims, @goatskickin, yoshiatsu, @elexissims, Zauma, funnyycats, Ginko, @martinimyb, @profesionalpartyguest, @goingmintal, jessi, newsea, @kewai-dou, @alanna-goth, lamz, lapis-lazuli, @pforestsims, vidcunds, lidiqnata, marko, @mdpthatsme, mistyblue, mullatto (on imvu i think?), @amauryhairslayer, Myos, Kale, Miki, Nightcrawler, @entropy-sims, Nouk, cheesecake-twins, Peggy, Raon, @s1ndle, @sclub-privee, rosesims, skysims, @evannamari, puchamicii, ulker, wingssims, chanelwwww, sussi, the77sim3, momosims, modishkitten, kijiko, jakea, grimcookies, @ice-creamforbreakfast, @nonsensical-pixels, cupidily, lucassims, frauhupfner, luutzi, @marsosims, oepu, @ethernalic and @julietoon-ts2

for the hair database: every hair here is retextured in afterglow (including the clay ones)

[the-hero-of-net-zero]

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Some stuff I like

Kandi art music crafts spiderman (More specifically the spider-verse movies) history DC/xmen comics batfam reading righting collecting things Cristals (my favorites are lapis and moss agate) making up stories unfiction analog horror shity mockbuster movies arcane we happy few league of legends tf2 psychonauts clowns wkm inswm mark/jacksepitceye egos starlight express cats the musical

My favorite animals are cats birds and seals

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Some music artists i like - bôa p!atd ren maneskin spg no doubt Hollywood undead Tyler the creator <33

My b day is 12/17

Certainly reading-> book of bill hell followed with us the spirit bares its teeth

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Hermes Aphrodite and Baphomet worshiper <3

DNI -> |Anti agere/petre/fictionkin/physical nonhuman| Alfred's playhouse fans|people over the age of 20| grammar police

IAM A MINOR don't D.M me unless your my moot

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My side blogs

My other social media's

My muse <3

blinkies/stamps

Userboxes

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[ripsocialbunny]

Lapis City

Brought back from the brink of bankruptcy, Lapis City hopes to restore its once-bustling streets to their former glory. With efforts made to clean up the neighborhoods, reform decaying infrastructure, and renovate crumbling buildings, perhaps the Bottom Belt won't drive away too many of the city's young professionals and remaining families.

For the longest time in TS3, this was my passion project. It was born from my desire to see the rustbelt city I grew up in realized in a Sims game. While this world falls short of that ambition in some ways, it's something to refer back to for future projects.

Fun fact: the river turns green when it rains. It's something I could fix (probably a terrain paint thing), but it kinda adds to the charm of the city-- with all its corruption and rising sea levels.

I might do a showcase video. I might make it available for download. Who knows.

Credit to @potato-ballad-sims and all the awesome MTS creators whose creations add to the landscape of this world. Your builds and CC give this world so much life. Thank you!

[inspofromancientworld]

The History of Glass and Glass Making

Glass is an amorphous solid, often transparent material. The amorphous part means that the atoms aren't aligned in any particular order. It is formed when molten silicon containing compounds are cooled rapidly. It is fairly easy to shape and is inert, meaning it won't interact with most chemicals, making it a good container for many things.

By Ji-ElleIt feels nice and warmIt feels like a love storm - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15527635 By Stickpen - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10689767 By H. Raab (User:Vesta) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=488611 and By H. Raab (User:Vesta) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=486872

Natural glass comes in a few forms, such as obsidian from volcanoes, fulgurites from lightning strikes, Moldavite from meteorite impacts in central and eastern Europe, Libyan desert glass from meteorite impacts in the Sahara, and the more general impactite as the name for glass created by meteorite impacts, and Edeowie glass, which we're still trying to figure out what created it.

By Nsingapuri - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78429853

During the Stone Age, many societies used tools made from obsidian glass, knapped into blades for cutting and traded widely given the limited sources, it being only found near volcanoes, and the wide spread of the tools we find. As metal working began to grow in the Bronze Age, resulting in beads being found in the slag and the creation of faience, a type of glazing that used quartz that is heated so it becomes glass-like used by the Egyptians.

source: https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/studies-in-early-egyptian-glass

True glass making likely started in the Late Bronze Age in Egypt and Megiddo. Archaeologists have found glass ingots of various colors, vessels that mimicked semi-precious stone carvings, and deliberately made beads. Soda ash (sodium carbonate) from plant ash was added to sand to create glass which was then extracted into a rope and formed into vessel by coiling it around a clay or sand shape then reheating it multiple times to make the layers fuse together. Beads were more easily formed this way. Colored glass was made by various metallic oxides and then applied to vessels by drawing the glass into finer lines and then rolling the vessels or beads until the surface was smooth, a process called marvering. Handles and feet were made and applied separately. Much of the rest of glass production was done when it was cold, taking techniques from stone working to finish the glass when it was cooled. These techniques were closely guarded secrets of various palace controlled industries centered around Western Asia, Crete, and Egypt. By the 15th century BCE, Linear B script has been found that translates to 'workers of lapis lazuli and glass' (𐀓𐀷𐀜𐀺𐀒𐀂, ku-wa-no-wo-ko-i).

By SBAUmbria - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33260156

The Late Bronze Age Collapse brought glass making to a near complete halt until the 9th century BCE in Syria and Cyprus when they discovered how to make colorless glass. Ashurbanipal's library contained instructions on how to make glass from about 650 BCE. Egypt's glass industry wasn't revived until the Ptolemies took over in 305 BCE. Glass making techniques were experimented with resulting in advancement, including 'slumping' (draping not quite molten glass over a form to make dishes), millefiori, where colored glass canes were sliced into small pieces and then fused together to create a mosaic-like tile effect. Glass blowing was discovered during the 1st century BCE, making glass vessels much easier to produce and 'inexpensive compared to pottery vessels'. Clear glass, which required the addition of manganese dioxide, was discovered in Alexandria around 100 CE, which led to the development of window glass (though the technique to make them made them quite poor optically) with windows found in the wealthiest villas in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

source https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-021-09467-1

In India, the earliest glass is a brown bead dated to about 1700 BCE though widespread evidence of glass usage didn't occur until the 3rd century BCE when large quantities of jewelry and vessels were discovered in Taxila. The first site to produce glass in India is Kopia in Uttar Pradesh which was apparently in use from the 7th century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Based on the chemical composition, India produced its own glass rather than importing it from the Near East or China.

By Augusthaiho - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78022227

China was slow to adopt glass, preferring ceramics and metal working. The first evidence of glass is from the Warring States period (475-221 BCE), though it remained rare and mostly beads and imported rather than locally produced. During the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), local glass production began and importation decreased greatly. After the Han Dynasty, glass production decreased until the 4th and 5th centuries CE.

[viaphni]

i have been drawing. a LOT

Here are some highlights from recently (oldest to newest)

[arquimidna]

Can you draw the birthday girl (Lapis Lazuli, today 9/25 is 10 years since her debut) with the Crybaby palette?

Here you go! Hope you like it CC: ♥ I can have one more request if anyone is interested. It's the palette challenge.

[fullofartsy]

Lapis Lazuli screenshot redraw and CC Garnet 🫶

[thebleedingwoodland]

Hi indo simmer here, I wonder why you never make an edible/functional food anymore?

Hai juga @lovrdarts Jadwalku sibuk sebetulnya. Ini aja aku lagi sempet-sempetin buat CC sebelum aku balik lagi ke dunia nyata atau main game lain tapi yang diprioritaskan yang penting-penting dulu. Belakangan lagi buat default replacement untuk budaya China/Tiongkok di Sims 3 karena representasi budaya China dibuat EA hancur banget. Kalau makanan aku prioritasin versi dekor tapi non-functional ya. Karena aku orang designer, bukan modder. Buat modding pun yang simpel-simpel saja.

Dulu tahun 2018 an aku sudah buat banyak makanan yang bisa dimakan alias edible yang memakai script buatan NonaMena, itu script cloning-an dari Dry Food-nya Expansion Pack World Adventures. Menurutku segitu sudah kebanyakan, jadi belum ada mood atau niat untuk buat makanan edible baru lagi. Kalau kamu sebelumnya sudah atau belum tahu, ini daftar makanan edible buatanku.

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Hi too @lovrdarts My schedule has been really tight recently. I create CC In my limited spare time before I'm going back to real life or playing other games, but sure I prioritize the most important first. For food CC, I prioritize making the decoration version of them but non-functional. Because I am a designer, not a modder. Even though I create mods but I'm only able to create simple mods.

In year 2018 I created a lot of edible food CC using NonaMena's script which the script is cloned from World Adventures Expansion Pack's Dry Food. I think I had created a lot of edible food CC at that time. I don't have enough mood or intention to make new edible food CC recently. Just in case If you know or don't know, here is list of my own creation of edible food CC.

Edible Chicken Nugget

2. Edible Kue Lapis & Kue Lapis Legit

3. Edible American Fried Chicken

4. Edible Zongzi

5. Edible Martabak Manis

6. Edible Tempe

[cursed-collective]

Guys :( our bestie just sent us the SWEETEST video that they edited. We love him sm /p