Three Missed Defaults and some Promises
Jun. 23rd, 2010 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hat_plays_simsHokay, so, first of all, I missed some defaults-- or rather, decided that they fit sets I'd already uploaded instead of belong in the Misc set, at least for two of the three.
First off, going into the Kids and School set, is this little doodad. ... Technically, that's the default ACR adjuster, but it's ALSO the handy dandy stack of phonebooks kids perch on while playing chess. I don't know WHY it took me this long to default out that sucker.
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Second, by informal donator request, a biodegradable trash heap. It makes sense to put that one in Cleaning rather than Misc, right? So that's where it's going, but it's available singly here.
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Finally, for your Medieval venue businesses, a bandatron ticket! Nothing fancy, but if my motto weren't "It's the little things," I wouldn't be bothering with all this. It's going in Business and Money defaults, because, um. I only recently noticed I'd missed it.
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As usual when I miss something, I'm heading right over to the appropriate entries to add the missed doodads to them. As usual for default replacements, no paysites, but otherwise feel free to do whatever you like with these. As ever, thank you Lyn for Photoshop.
So that's that.
Later tonight there should be University defaults-- not everything from University, but the three college-specific props. Cos I'm going by theme, not expansion, because that makes taking pics easier... but, um, speaking of taking pics, I sort of a little bit completely failed to take any decent title card pics for that set, so. Gotta restart the game to get that one going.
(Also later there should be a set of Servo defaults, and eventually some dining-and-dating goodies from Nightlife. I have a mess of things to do on the Servo, and I need a title card for the dating crap and a picture to prove I've actually changed the catalog description on the flaming bag of poo. You wouldn't think it'd be that hard to have a really, really disastrous date!)
First off, going into the Kids and School set, is this little doodad. ... Technically, that's the default ACR adjuster, but it's ALSO the handy dandy stack of phonebooks kids perch on while playing chess. I don't know WHY it took me this long to default out that sucker.
Second, by informal donator request, a biodegradable trash heap. It makes sense to put that one in Cleaning rather than Misc, right? So that's where it's going, but it's available singly here.
Finally, for your Medieval venue businesses, a bandatron ticket! Nothing fancy, but if my motto weren't "It's the little things," I wouldn't be bothering with all this. It's going in Business and Money defaults, because, um. I only recently noticed I'd missed it.
As usual when I miss something, I'm heading right over to the appropriate entries to add the missed doodads to them. As usual for default replacements, no paysites, but otherwise feel free to do whatever you like with these. As ever, thank you Lyn for Photoshop.
So that's that.
Later tonight there should be University defaults-- not everything from University, but the three college-specific props. Cos I'm going by theme, not expansion, because that makes taking pics easier... but, um, speaking of taking pics, I sort of a little bit completely failed to take any decent title card pics for that set, so. Gotta restart the game to get that one going.
(Also later there should be a set of Servo defaults, and eventually some dining-and-dating goodies from Nightlife. I have a mess of things to do on the Servo, and I need a title card for the dating crap and a picture to prove I've actually changed the catalog description on the flaming bag of poo. You wouldn't think it'd be that hard to have a really, really disastrous date!)
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Date: 2010-06-24 12:53 am (UTC)Now you got me really curious about the servo... I have the wooden one you made and really like that one!
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Date: 2010-06-24 01:27 am (UTC)First one is an earlier attempt, I've darkened the joint lines since then-- which you can see on the second one. On the third, I finally got the gloss finish removed (which I'm going to offer separately as an option you can apply to any Servo default). I need to work on the hands-- they're the original Servo hands, but I need to lighten them without losing the definition on the joints-- and work on getting assorted interesting symbols onto the body. Basically, in the same theme as my original Servo, just on Amaryll's androgyne mesh.
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Date: 2010-06-24 02:10 am (UTC)I donno about others but at least for me, I wouldn't mind having a female shape. Maybe using blooms mesh for the "ruined" meshes for the sexy feet replacements... Or the swimsuit mesh by maxis, no high beams, but does have sexy feet for those that have the replacement... I'm so nabbing this one, even if it is only on the androgynous mesh!
Has a Pinocchio feel to it! I love it!
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Date: 2010-06-24 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-24 04:10 am (UTC)Are you going to do sorta what you did to the other servo and make a bit of a "stain" on the lips for the girls? I like that, it gives a bit of girly detail.
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Date: 2010-06-24 04:15 am (UTC)I haven't quite decided yet about lipstick on the ladies. I was going to carve male or female symbols into the backs of their heads, at least...
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Date: 2010-06-24 01:39 am (UTC)And your new Servo looks AWESOME. Man, I don't know whether I'll stick with the suit of armor or go with that one!
You make life tough sometimes, Hat, but only in the most awesome of ways. ;)
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Date: 2010-06-24 02:27 am (UTC)At least the hard decisions are fun ones?
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Date: 2010-07-11 04:32 am (UTC)Anonymous donor is happy.
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Date: 2010-07-13 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-25 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-25 04:10 pm (UTC)Ahem.
Thank you! It wasn't until somebody mentioned it that I realized the trash heap really did need to go-- I considered it once, but at the time I didn't feel confident enough to take on something with so much detail.
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Date: 2010-07-27 11:26 pm (UTC)> The poor girl has more cleavage under her arm than on her chest, I swear.
I defy any girl to look good in that get-up. And as if that wasn't bad enough, someone had to slap that corpse-grey make-up all over her. What was that about? "I got these left-overs from that zombie movie I worked at, waste not, want not" ?
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Date: 2010-07-28 11:15 am (UTC)I actually think the corpsy-look is a filter, but I'd have to see pics of other people in the movie to be sure. "Okay, so it's winter, what can we do to make it look cold? Right, desaturate everything until everybody looks like the walking dead, got it!"
I'm being way too nit-pickish. Shame on me.
Date: 2010-07-29 01:17 pm (UTC)I doubt it. For one thing, there was that awesome scene where the Knightley character got a sponge bath, in the middle of a snowy forrest a hundred miles from anywhere. Protection against cold air and looks? A diaphanous bit of cloth with slightly more substance than a cloud of mist. (Because roman soldiers out in the wild are always careful to have a few square yards of see-through cloth with them.) So I don't think realistic portrayal of the hardships of cold weather was high on the directors priority list.
And then there's (please don't be scared) this one. I haven't found a bigger picture but the way the mouth and inside of the elbow is looking? Make-up. It doesn't go all the way to the hair line, too.
Compost heap is of course the perfect base for medieval trash, and I'm so gleeful about you actually digging up pictures of stuff that'd turn up in a medieval house!
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Date: 2010-07-29 05:23 pm (UTC)Re: I'm being way too nit-pickish. Shame on me.
Date: 2010-07-30 07:59 pm (UTC)And the beauty of it: for the stuff in the movie that I didn't like there's the Nostalgia Critic's version of it. Doubles the fun I had with this movie.
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Date: 2010-07-30 08:12 pm (UTC)I'll settle for a lot of fantasy elements in a King Arthur movie-- it's mythology, not history. There's a wizard in it, and sometimes even more fantastical stuff. It just bugs me when there's no real acknowledgment at all that... the thing should be set in the dark ages. If you're going to put sequins on one of Guinevere's dresses (I'll be damned if I can remember the name of that movie, but Patrick Stewart played Guinevere's father and Uther did Igraine while wearing full plate), then dammit, I expect catchy musical numbers. *grins*
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Date: 2010-07-31 09:02 am (UTC)Oh, musical cuteness! That was really King Arthur singing? At first I thought... comic relief, side-kick, court jester maybe. It was the blue eyeshadow.
> but Patrick Stewart played Guinevere's father and Uther did Igraine while wearing full plate
Oh goodness, yes, the "sex in full plate" moment! The moment I read it the scene jumped up in my mind like an evil jack-in-the-box. "Excalibur" is the culprit. I mean, owwww, full plate? The cold metal is one thing. Being pinched in all the wrong places by buckles and metal egdes.... OWCH. Do not want. But they had such a pretty Lancelot; I liked how the relationship between him and Guinevere was done, and I utterly adored the guy who played Mordred.
But for butchering the entire King Arthur theme, "First Knight" definitely takes the cake. Lovingly sporked here, since I'm throwing around links anyway.
You are very right about the mythology versus history of course. I heard a very interesting lecture on the history of the King Arthur story once, and right from the beginning it was tailored to purposes: tying in England with the Romans and coincidentally with their world-wide empire (well, known world, pretty much), christianity, budding concepts of chivalry... and then one fine day, freedom, democracy and equality. Rrrrright.
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Date: 2010-07-31 02:40 pm (UTC)THANK you. Excalibur. I was never going to remember the name of that movie. King Arthurian titles all tend to run together, in that Sword in the Stone Excalibur King Arthur Camelot Holy Grail kind of way. First Knight, The Mists of Avalon, and this one short story I read once called Black Horses for the King actually have titles that stick out from the crowd... not that First Knight has anything else to recommend it. (Guinevere had one line in it that I liked, something about wanting three things in life that she could only have one of them, and I recall one was doing her duty to her country and the last was "and I want to live and die in Lyonesse." That was pretty much the last time I liked her, because in that moment, she seemed real. The rest of the movie was just an excuse for Sean Connery and Richard Gere to play to their fanbase.)
Romans did get into everything. Kind of like rats. Ahem. Actually, it's not a huge suspension of disbelief, for me, to have a young boy who was raised to knighthood but knew nothing of his parents grow up into the kind of king who has more than the usual amount of concern for the rights and wellbeing of the least of his people... but it's kind of a far cry from democracy or a court of law that doesn't hinge on torturing a confession out of someone.
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Date: 2010-08-01 01:16 am (UTC)It's very dangerous to throw the phrase "Holy Grail" at me, it could trigger a one-page rave on the Monty Python version. Coconuts for horses and rampant silliness, but first rate work on the clothing and armor. I adore the way the Monty Python troop used to put so much knowledge and effort into just being silly. "But you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
The scene with Guinevere sounds really good, but I think it was probably drowned out in attempts to create some sexual tension. Or I was still laughing like a hyena about her dress, or the idea of road kill in a medieval forest, or the unspeakable obstacle course... I wouldn't mind so much that the main bit of the movie was about the two leads playing to their fanbase, if only I'd have gotten some actual fun out of it apart from laughing at the concept of a motor boat in the early middle ages.. The boys in Twilight were playing to their fanbase, too, but in that case I was actually entertained by it. (Or at least I was happily perving over them, which comes close.) The whole lot from the Troy movie is playing to their fanbase, and it involves lots of running around half-naked and being butch. I'm perfectly fine with that. Richard Gere and Sean Connery being boring at each other? No.
I always connect torturing confessions out of people more with modern times (that is, part 1500) than medieval times, but the sad truth is probably that it's a constant. And yep, growing up outside of a royal court and actually meeting peasants at other occasions than when they dutifully cheer while you ride along would make a difference. I can believe that someone grown up like that would care for the population. That he goes on preaching about freedom at the drop of a hat (First Knight) or plans on his nobles sharing their lands with the peasants takes a bit more suspension of disbelieve.
> Romans did get into everything. Kind of like rats. I'm just writing a paper on roman satire and I just know how much Augustus and his successors would have loved that thought. Not that roman writers didn't say much more cutting things about their beloved rulers, once they were safely dead and buried. Or at least thrown into the Tiber.
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Date: 2010-08-01 02:31 am (UTC)Of course it's full of coconuts and rampant silliness, it's Monty Python. I really should watch it again; I've only seen it once, but I remember being impressed with the production values. (Although what I remember most is this juggler and escape artist who works a lot of Renaissance Faires, The Broon. At one point, and I don't remember why, he said to the audience "Any questions?" Some dude pipes up with "What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" The crowd laughs, Broon looked out over us and drily said "Yeah, because we don't get enough Python references at Faire.")
Honestly, I've only seen First Knight once, and that line and the fact that it was the first movie I'd seen where Guinevere actually went and got herself kidnapped are the only things that stand out. I remember it being very, very bland. (Twilight I am very down on for other reasons, but hey.) Excalibur, while bizzare and oddly shiny, at least had a plot and some weirdos who were fun to watch.
Man, somewhere, I know I have a source for this, but I can't find it... Medieval judicial courts were very particular about proof of guilt or innocence, but proof of guilt was regularly obtained through torture. Like, pretty much everyday interrogations involved some kind of pain. NOT torturing suspects is actually a pretty new thing that's still catching on. And the whole 'freedom and equality!' thing sounds kind of like the writer, director, or highly likely in Connery's case, actor, wanting Arthur to seem like a Good Man by modern standards, and how can a guy who stands at the apex of a pyramid scheme with the working class at the bottom, practically slaves, really be a Good Man? It's values dissonance; a lot of modern moviegoers can't quite seem to wrap their heads around the fact 'all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights' is a pretty new concept, too.
Now, you have to remember, I like rats. I've kept them as pets. They're charming little buggers, and very bright. Of course, they also have no respect for personal boundaries, and they will assume if the food is not already in someone's mouth, it's fair game.