Strangetown, Here We Come.

Hey, everyone! :) The simming community Holiday Love Meme is back! Please drop by allthingssimlish to sign up and spread some holiday cheer.

Also, how are you? Let's take this rare non-story livejournal post as an opportunity to say hi and maybe chat a bit. I miss all of you who aren't on Tumblr, and so rarely get a chance to chat even with those of you who are. I hope all is well and that you all have a wonderful holiday season ahead of you. :) And even if it's not or you don't, I still want you to know that I'm thinking of you and wish you the best.

The Holiday Love Meme has reached four pages of comments. Thanks for sharing all that love, everyone! :)




Ripp: Well, this is it! Merry KISSmas, Johnny!


( But wait, what's this...? )

Johnny Smith doesn't do things halfway. ;) (And hey, the world might end soon, so what the hell, right? Haha!)

Merry Kissmas! XD

It's that time of year again! The third annual sims community holiday love meme is up at allthingsimlish, so we can once again share the love for our fellow simmers. You should drop by, sign up, and anonymously leave a comment or two (or three or four...). It's fun to spread the warm fuzzies. ^_^

Thanks to naughtydolphin for setting the community up and posting the meme year after year. You rock!

two woohoo hearts, and a plumb-bob in a pine tree.

Let's face it. Some gifts are meant to be opened in private. ;)

After I made those first default replacement gift packages, which were a simple switch of textures, I started playing around with other colour combinations. Of course, it wasn't long before I started testing out woohoo icons on the texture. It ended up being more complicated than I thought, with the way it's mapped (if you look closely, you'll see what I mean), but I finally came up with something that worked. I hope you have fun with this silly little gift. It reminds me of a favourite Christmas classic of mine.

Meme time! I try not to go overboard with memes, but this one just seems full of holiday good will. Won't you play along?

Description taken from the very first time it was posted:
'Tis the season to... make a million memes to let everyone know just how much you appreciate them and love them. :D

Here's the plan: You comment with your username, and people will comment ANONYMOUSLY with things they love and cherish about you. I say anonymously because it makes the atmosphere lighter and more mysterious, kind of like a Secret Santa only with love and holiday cheer! People will wonder who these caring people are and appreciate the fact that they exist, not only the fact that they may be best friends with them.

Then find people you care about and have something nice to say to - even if you don't know them! - and leave them something that will make their heart feel a little warmer at night. This way, the love will go around and around and the magical spirit of the season can be cherished and appreciated by all.


You can find mine right here. If you post one, you can comment here with your link and you just might get a little anon love of your own. ^_^

ETA: I now also have another thread at allthingsimlish , so you can go there instead. And why not join the new comm? It'll be fun!

I'm still playing around with different types of default replacements, and (as you may have guessed) I've turned my attention to the easel paintings. When I sim, I tend to play a lot of artists, so I can't tell you how many times I've seen that hot pink painting with the girl in the green dress (and the huge hand), or the clowns, or the picasso homage... but it's a lot.

And, if you know me at all, you know I'm very much a Maxis-match sort of simmer, so I've been exploring some options for replacing those same ol', same ol' paintings that we've been staring at since the basegame, but keeping them in a style that will match the game. Sims 3 brought us a whole new set of easel paintings, and also included some real gems that imitate famous works from art history, so I thought it'd be nice to make those available for use in Sims 2.

Ugh. I'm failing at this Christmas posting thing already, but it's been a crazy week for me. I'm going to have to just try to post something tomorrow.

On a similar note, if I were to, ummm, make a replacement PT set that included Stella, would you want her to be an exact copy, an exact copy with pointy ears (hidden under her helmet, of course), or an altered Stella with more extreme features for a more alien-y experience in her offspring?

Not that I have a reason to ask. ;)