Custom Content: hunting and gathering

[strangetomato]

I haven't made any progress on the next update at all, because I've spent all my computer time today just rounding up cc. I've located most of it, but I still need to find a few stray items. Here's the list (for my own reference, but you can help if you like):

Jaxy's new hair - I had this bookmarked, but the bookmarks are gone too. I remember hunting around a lot for this, so it may take a while to find (and I need it before I can finish my SST challenge entry for this month - looks like that's going to be late). While I'm at it, I want to find that female conversion of the Seasons caesar hairstyle. That looks like a great one for the ladies who prefer more masculine hair.

Stella's dress - This one always baffles me. I looked it up once before, and did find it, but it was a struggle. I'll find it, but the loss of my bookmarks makes it more difficult. Oh, and I have no idea about her eye makeup either. Hmmm... where did I get that?

I mentioned Edie's hair already, and I also need to find a way to get one of Tyler's dresses for Erin Beaker (that can wait a while, since she's not in the next update, though). SimplySims2 is down right now, and I have no other way to get his stuff.

Not surprisingly, I found some shiny new cc during my hunt, so I'll share a little of that with you.

Isn't Bianca cute? She's sporting a recolour of Raonsims Female Hair 24 from Rissa Styles, which I had never checked out before, but has a number of Maxis-ish recolours of some popular meshes. Look how lovely and not overly shiny that hair is. It's not exactly a Maxis match, but it fits in. I like how dark the brown is, and I think it really suits her. She's wearing her original glasses, because I like those frameless ones. I'll often keep the glasses if a sim comes with them, or just switch the styles to something cc. I love glasses, so I add them to sims all the time. I only ditch the sunglasses. Yeah, sunglasses just have to go for me. I'm not a fan. Aren't personal quirks interesting?

She's wearing the sort of makeup I typically use on my sims. In this case, she has Lyran eyelashes (I'd link, but the site seems to be gone - I think she was shutting it down, right?), and HystericalParoxysm's Natural Beauty: Subtle Lipstick. No eyeshadow, since I often skip it, and no blush, since I always skip it. Freckles, however, have been heaped on like birch to the fire in the middle of February. She has about three layers of freckles there. I think they look good on her.

Thanks to my new system of organizing my downloads, it's easy for me to tell you where I found all those freckles. I picked them up from Sirona Sims, Helaene (here in the graveyard), Lyran (again, no link - I made a back file with her stuff in it), alkaloid at MTS2 (here and here), SIMetrical (here, and I also gave her a beauty mark from here), and migamoo at MTS2. Yeah, I'm a bit obsessed with freckles now. I blame simgaroop, since I seem to have caught the freckle bug from her after I downloaded her Tim and Helena. They came with pretty freckles, which lead me to want more and MORE. I'm a little odd, I know.




This outfit is a little something for when you'd like your ladies to be more casual and less skin-tight. It's a mesh created from bits and pieces of Maxis meshes by Aner-Dyfan, with textures by Oepu. You can find a number of great Maxis match items at Oepu's site. She has a page on MTS2 too.

Now, back to her real outfit...




That's right, Bianca. Show off your new boots.




Bianca is wearing separates by migamoo. The shirt is the jacketed top (I also use that one on Lola Curious) and the pants are the booted bottoms. Both can be found on migamoo's page on MTS2.

This reminds me of those silly simsecrets (what happened to that this week, anyway?) that wondered why anyone would make Maxis match content. They were all like, "If I wanted Maxis, I'd use it." Well, that's nice, dear, but for those of us who do like the Maxis content, we'd like more variety. We want LOTS more. These two migamoo pieces greatly expand the selection of seperates for my females, and they fit with the rest of the game.

I don't get the point of that "secret". It's like me making one that says "I hate photo skinning." Well, I do. It's not a secret. I like things to look handpainted and rich and cartoony, just like the rest of the game. The anti-Maxis bunch have plenty of it to choose from, so they shouldn't worry. There's enough room on the internet for all of us (unless someone forgot to mention something to me - are we running out of space?).




Do you think she's happy? That's a pretty huge grin, Bianca.

That makes me wonder... does anyone ever use teeth replacements on their sims? Is there even such a thing as a teeth replacement? Or is it just masks? I know they look like dentures, or cardboard cut-outs, but I like the teeth. They make me laugh.

Bianca is a pretty nifty little sim to play. She's a family sim, but her single male friend, Kent Capp, starts the game with a slight preference for males (I checked it in SimPE and it's true). He's the only Maxis sim that starts the game gay. Circe is set to be bisexual. Nervous Subject starts with no attraction to males, and negative attraction to females, but that's not the same thing. That's more like some type of anti-sexuality. So there you have it. One honest-to-goodness gay sim by design, so I may as well make the most of it.

So, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with Kent and Bianca, but it won't be marrying them and pumping out children. I figure, if they're already friends, she most likely knows he's gay. The backstory mentions how Kent's family doesn't approve of her "affections" for him, but that can mean friendship as well as romance, so that's how I'm going to take it. She's his girl friend, not his girlfriend. I relate to her more already, since I have a Kent of my own that way. Now she wants to fall in love, so I need to find her someone nice (and preferably a playable sim - maybe there's a uni character from La Academie that would make a nice match).

She's into arts and crafts and is currently in the dance career in my game (she starts unemployed), which is fun. She rolled the want to buy a pottery wheel too. Don't you love how, since FT, sims want to buy items that are relevant to their interests? It makes sense.



Oh, and speaking of cc, the Sims 2 Store has opened. One side of my brain is telling me to download the handful of hairs that I really want (the clothes are a big dud for me - only maybe one or two decent outfits, and no new separates), but the other side is afraid of SecurRom. *looks at computer* Yeah, I'm really afraid of that. Also, WTF is up with the mandatory patching of FT?

Man, I really want that short and choppy hair for Jaxy, though. That's a great lesbian 'do. I could see her growing out the fauxhawk in favour of that, for sure.

Must... resist... buying...

I will resist. I can't have SecurRom on my computer again. I'm not even sure it's to blame for my issues, but it seems like a little too much of a coincidence. I'm avoiding it at all costs (or, in this case, $savings$).

Remember when Maxis used to post free downloads for their valued customers? They make so much money anyway. Do they even realize how much cash we give them by buying all of the EPs and SPs? After that, they still want more?

Yeah, screw that. EA can suck my left ovary.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, I did a little googling, and *cough, cough* they seem to already be out there on the internet, free for the taking. My morals didn't keep me from getting all the pre-order items that way, and I'm thinking that those feelings might extend to this EA store too.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

If/when you get the short and choppy hair (in whatever manner you get it *wink*) can you post a pic? That tiny blurred thumbnail on the EA site isn't enough for me to tell what it looks like.