Splish Splash: Mermaid (mostly) Separates

So, Splash was something of a formative experience. Sure, I'd liked mermaids well enough in things like Peter Pan, and on the Submarine Voyage at Disneyland, but then sometime in... like, 1986? My parents taped Splash off the Disney Channel and it became one of those videos I watched and re-watched until the tape wore out, basically. because Daryll Hannah in her beautiful goldfish tail with her crimped hair and her tits out, swimming so fast neither the underwater camera crew nor the professional diver with the tank of air could keep up with her was the most fantastic thing Little Baby Hat had ever seen in live action.

It should be a shock that I haven't had mermaids in my game until now, but I've never found any fins I liked... until first Gryning and then Meduza converted the TS4 Island Living fins. The proportions of the TS4 flukes look SO much better than basically any I'd seen anywhere before. And then Midgethetree's mermaid mod happened and...

Look, if I can't indulge my little-girl fantasies in the Sims, why even have a simulation game with all this power of creation and control?

( Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

Cross-Pollination 2: Skellified!

So, eight-- wow, eight years ago-- I posted Cross-Pollination for Cynnix, because there were very few things I wouldn't do for Cynnix, and there wasn't much to it on my part-- just copying Kittylynn74's plant tunic, plantkini, and plantshorts recolors onto Cocomama's child and teen plantsim meshes, Tig's stone age toddler tunic, and some underwear. Then four years ago, Skell posted some brand new plantsim tunic colors, which she did for CU-EU, which, fantastic... but I wanted matching toddlers and plantshorts and plantkinis, too.



So here I am, going back to that 'all I did was--' well again.

( You should have used terracotta, but you were still right to kill that guy. )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

BUY MODE BLITZ: Chateau Cuisine SDA Medieval Castle Kitchen

WOOOOO Guys I get to start sharing Buy Mode Blitz now!

What's Buy Mode Blitz? I'm thrilled you asked.

Buy Mode Blitz is something I've been whittling away at for, uh, like, five or six years now? The idea is, I have all these great meshes in my game and either they don't have nearly enough recolors to do them justice or the recolors they do have don't really coordinate with... anything else.

Buy Mode Blitz is intended to fix that.

How many colors is each thing in Buy Mode Blitz going to get? I have no idea. Some stuff I've only done one recolor for, sometimes only three, sometimes eight, sometimes 20, sometimes 40, 60, 82, 85, 164, 172, I dunno, it varies wildly.

Sims Design Avenue's Medieval Castle Kitchen was not the first item on my list... but it's the first I'm releasing and I'll tell you why after the cut.


( I'm so excited to share this, I'm not even looking up a quote about kitchens. )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

BUY MODE BLITZ: Salle du Bain SDA Castle Frances Bathroom

Buy Mode Blitz is, once again, me trying to get enough recolors of the really cool meshes I either use all the time or want to use all the time.



And this is one of those!

Kindly remapped and texture-referenced for me (several years ago) by Chiarascuro/TenLittlePandas, the SDA Castle Bathroom is...

( Well, It's a lot of things. )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

BUY MODE BLITZ: Atavera's Conga Drums (Argon'd)

Okay so the thing about my Almighty Comeback, here, is originally I wanted it to be a Twelve Days of Christmas thing, starting on the 24th and going all the way up to January 6th. Then things happened, and yeah now we're doing whatever.

This was going to be the Twelve Drummers Drumming post.



Okay, are conga drums acceptably Medieval?

I don't know but my Sims deserve drums!

( I'd quote Little Drummer Boy but I'm two weeks late. )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

BUY MODE BLITZ: Chris Hatch Baby Clothes Rack

Baby clothes! They work for everybody if they're townie-enabled, but what if you actually installed the entire Chris Hatch Plan Baby Outfit mod? (Courtesy copy of that here, by the way, Mr. Hatch encourages sharing.) Find it in General/Misc for $2500, but only on community lots.



Well, then you need the Functional Baby Clothes Rack, of course!

( Buy Mode Blitz: Where you get it because I need it! )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

BUY MODE BLITZ: Crocoabura's Dark Project Money Box

Buy Mode Blitz is where I get frustrated that the recolors I really want for something haven't magically fallen into my game.



So a million billion years ago in 2007, the Dark Project on Mod the Sims was, like, the place to get Medieval fantasy content. I'm pretty sure Crocoabura's cash register here was the first one of its kind.

But the textures were very... 2007. And I was no longer satisfied.

( Money, money, money by the pound! )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

BUY MODE BLITZ: Toolregame/GRAT Social Welfare Table

Okay listen though I'm kind of excited about this one.



The Toolregame Social Welfare Table is, effectively, Universal Basic Income for your Sims.

Because there was only ever one recolor I knew of and the books were kind of... modern and legibly English, I had to chuck this one into my Buy Mode Blitz pile.

Toolregame/GRaT/Mel's Welfare System comes in two parts, the table itself (20 Pooklet Project Natural colors over Piggi Wood 03/SDA Castle Kitchen, plus some antique-y looking books-- books the same on all colors) and the welfare claim paperwork (Ten notebook-style recolors, using some pages burgled from SDA and the same book covers as in the Mog Hughson Novel Manuscript, plus Sunni's Wizard's Tower Iron trying hard to be a charcoal stylus). Both packages are required for the system to work.

( Never money cheat again! )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

BUY MODE BLITZ: Heget's Karaoke in Kamelot

This one is small. Well, the object is big but the number of recolors is small.



Guys I still really love barrels.

Ahem.

Buy Mode Blitz is, of course, where I go rummaging through the various meshes I have and like but never use or use all the time, and give them spankin' new recolors so I like them better than I did.

( Karaoke in Kamelot is one such mesh. )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

BUY MODE BLITZ: Hysterical Paroxysm's Primitive Scroll Phone

I use this one to pieces.

Okay, so, Buy Mode Blitz is all about the meshes I either use all the time or want to use but their lack of texture options thwarts me. HP's scroll phone is... sort of both? Or it was, but now! Now I can put this thing all over the danged place.

( Also that shade of oak up there in the title card? That means A Wizard Did It. )

BUY MODE BLITZ: Babes In Toyland (so, so many functional toy recolors)

When I was originally planning Hat's Almighty Comeback, it was going to be Twelve Days of Christmas themed. I was gonna start on December 24th and end on January 6th and there would be themes and this? This was gonna be my Ultimate Post, because in many traditions, Christmas gifts aren't given until January 6th, Epiphany, because that's when Yeshua ben Yusuf got his presents, so that's why you have to wait, too, Little Timmy.

Buuuuuut life happened and I totally missed the sixth. These gifts are officially late.

For humans! For Sims it's fine, whatever their yearly gift-giving holiday is, they have it every twenty days.



So they should have some goddamn toys.

The entire rest of this post's images are all swatches.

( So Buy Mode Blitz is... )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

HAIR DUMP XIV: A Hair Dump Story, Part One (Ladies)

Behind the cut lurk twenty hairs for your downloading pleasure.

Since there are a zillion downloads inside the cut, the boilerplate goes outside the cut, so...

NO PAYSITES. Mesh creators' policies may vary, my policy says I want a cut (like that would ever happen), but Pooklet says no and these are Pooklet's actions. So no paysites.

PRAISE BE UNTO: Bipsouille, Umi, Helga, CYnnix, DigitalAngels, EnjoyingMyPain, Grecadea, Hriveresse, JellyMeduza, Kazarin, Marko, RentedSpace, Memento/mmnt, Trapping, Vikku/VQ, Peggy, and XM Sims for meshes, Pooklet, Nouk, FantasyRogue, Ja, DigitalAngels, Simpliacity, and, uh, TS4 for textures, Pooklet for making sure Project Mayhem worked with my copy of Photoshop (and for their textures), anyone who has ever donated to me, and you lot for being patient with my long radio silence, because this time it was REALLY long.

HEY LISTEN! Meshes are included unless otherwise noted. Swatches are included in the zip files, everything is compressorized. Poly counts may vary; MAKE NOTES. Elders go gray, but you also get Time Bomb in the custom bin, just in case Primer isn't platinum enough for you. All female hairs are maternity-wear enabled from teen and up, and all male hairs from YA and up, to stop the weird hair disappearing act that happens if you don't have a Pregnant Sims Wear Any Outfit hack (but why wouldn't you?).

ANNOYING THINGS I DO: Because I credit everybody in them, my folder and file names are stupidly long. Feel free to shorten one, the other, or both as you please-- better you edit them to suit your needs than I just name everything [COLOR NAME] and cheese everybody off, right? Also, each hair color has an elder gray attached instead of only black. Feel free to re-bin everything and cut out the extra grays, or only use one family but swap out textures so your elders have some variety, whatever. Likewise, I bin using Pooklet's original scheme, because it's a nice easy default. I totally do not care if you re-bin things to suit your own tastes (but hey, every hair has a gray attached in case you need it!), and neither does Pooklet, so do whatever makes you happy, binning-wise.

EVEN MORE ANNOYING: Everybody sees a hair dump, so...

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

Yes, if you want to do the unnaturals, please feel free to do the unnaturals. I have no plans to do so. Just remember to credit properly-- I tend to use Nouk's waves, FR's braid, and a chunk of curve I stole off Ja's Uni ponytail default.

If you spot any broken links or other idiocy, please let me know!

OH ALSO!

I've been doing the new thing where I'm doing that thing where you sorta bin Time Bomb hairs-- they're still in the Custom bin, but at least in this hair dump, if your Time-Bomb-haired Sim has a kid with their hair color, it won't just be the parent's particular hairstyle!

There are twenty large pics behind the cut, cats and kittens. Dial-up users beware.

( A Long Time Ago, In A Bodyshop Far, Far Away... )

HAIR DUMP XIV: A Hair Dump Story, Part Two (Gents)

Behind the cut lurk NUMBER hairs for your downloading pleasure.

Since there are a zillion downloads inside the cut, the boilerplate goes outside the cut, so...

NO PAYSITES. Mesh creators' policies may vary, my policy says I want a cut (like that would ever happen), but Pooklet says no and these are Pooklet's actions. So no paysites.

PRAISE BE UNTO: [MESHERS], [TEXTURES Nouk, Ja, FR, Aquilegia, Pooklet], Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Pooklet for making sure Project Mayhem worked with my copy of Photoshop (and for their textures), my lovely donors who make sure I can keep my photos online (which lets me post hair dumps at all), and you lot for being patient with my long radio silence.

HEY LISTEN! Meshes are included unless otherwise noted. Swatches are included in the zip files, everything is compressorized. Poly counts may vary; MAKE NOTES. Elders go gray, but you also get Time Bomb in the custom bin, just in case Primer isn't platinum enough for you. All female hairs are maternity-wear enabled from teen and up, and all male hairs from YA and up, to stop the weird hair disappearing act that happens if you don't have a Pregnant Sims Wear Any Outfit hack (but why wouldn't you?).

ANNOYING THINGS I DO: Because I credit everybody in them, my folder and file names are stupidly long. Feel free to shorten one, the other, or both as you please-- better you edit them to suit your needs than I just name everything [COLOR NAME] and cheese everybody off, right? Also, each hair color has an elder gray attached instead of only black. Feel free to re-bin everything and cut out the extra grays, or only use one family but swap out textures so your elders have some variety, whatever. Likewise, I bin using Pooklet's original scheme, because it's a nice easy default. I totally do not care if you re-bin things to suit your own tastes (but hey, every hair has a gray attached in case you need it!), and neither does Pooklet, so do whatever makes you happy, binning-wise.

EVEN MORE ANNOYING: Everybody sees a hair dump, so...

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

Yes, if you want to do the unnaturals, please feel free to do the unnaturals. I have no plans to do so. Just remember to credit properly-- I tend to use Nouk's waves, FR's braid, and a chunk of curve I stole off Ja's Uni ponytail default.

If you spot any broken links or other idiocy, please let me know!

OH ALSO!

I've been doing the new thing where I'm doing that thing where you sorta bin Time Bomb hairs-- they're still in the Custom bin, but at least in this hair dump, if your Time-Bomb-haired Sim has a kid with their hair color, it won't just be the parent's particular hairstyle!

There are NUMBER large pics behind the cut, cats and kittens. Dial-up users beware.

( Hair Dump? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. )

BUY MODE BLITZ: Punching Bag (various ways to get it)

So you know how the Exerto Punching Bag is the career reward for the Athletic career, right? And Honeywell made a simple hanging bag that's texture-referenced to the career reward?

I didn't get any pics of the Career Reward version, because... I didn't, but hey! This is a pretty simple download, generally speaking.

( It's also part of Buy Mode Blitz. )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

Table-Of-Contents Post: Hat's Almighty Comeback

Well.

That's been a whole minute, hasn't it?

I'll save the State of the Hat for behind a cut at the end, people are allowed to not-care about me personally, but, y'know. I'm not dead! I logged into Mediafire! How about that horse! Apparently there are people out there trying to use Mediafire without Firefox (and thus, uBlock Origin, Noscript, and a Photobucket embed fix) because I hear people can't see my images!

I got an imgur account and a Sims File Share account. Replacing old images and adding mirror links is gonna be an ongoing project.

But you should be able to see all these!

1. Splish Splash: Mermaid (Mostly) Separates
2. Hair Dump XIV: A Hair Dump Story (ladies)
3. Hair Dump XIV: A Hair Dump Story (gents)
4. Cross-Pollination 2: Skellified!
5. Buy Mode Blitz: SDA Castle Kitchen
6. Buy Mode Blitz: SDA Castle Bathroom
7. Buy Mode Blitz: Atavera Conga Drums
8. Buy Mode Blitz: Chris Hatch Functional Baby Clothes Rack
9. Buy Mode Blitz: Crocoabura's Dark Project Money Chest
10. Buy Mode Blitz: Toolregame/GRAT's Social Welfare Table
11. Buy Mode Blitz: Heget's Karaoke in Kamelot
12. Buy Mode Blitz: Hysterical Paroxysm's Primitive Scroll Phone
13. Buy Mode Blitz: Basegame Exerto Punching Bag and Honeywell Hanging Bag
14. Buy Mode Blitz: TOYS

This may leave you with the confusing question, "What is Buy Mode Blitz?"

Buy Mode Blitz is a project I've been working on since... 2015? Though I was mostly organizing it then. Anyway. I don't know about you, but my game is full of great meshes that:

a) I use all the time, regardless of how many recolor options there are
b) I love but never use because they lack recolor options
c) I want to like the mesh but all the recolor options are, in some way, not to my taste
and/or
d) I love but never use because their only recolor options are boring or out-of-period

Buy Mode Blitz is me rolling up my sleeves and going "Well then let's fucking fix that."

Maybe I only intend to give a thing one recolor, maybe only three, maybe twenty, 32, 40, 60, 82, 174, the number varies wildly depending on what, exactly, the thing that needs recoloring is. The only thing required for an object or set to get chucked in Buy Mode Blitz is that I am Not Satisfied with the state of its recolors.

And I have such a backlog.

What am I going to do with such a backlog? ( Follow me, we're entering the realm of cut texts now. )

For those of you interested, ( State of the Hat! )

Do I still want donations and tips?

You bet your sweet bippy I do.

I'm trying to think of something I can do for donors? EDIT: I'm trying to think of something I can do for donors specifically because I acknowledge that I am not always capable of getting requests and commissions done in a timely fashion, so I'm not taking them anymore. So I'm looking for useful feedback there. I keep thinking things like... specific dollar amount and you can see my to-do list, or vote on the next post from a list of options, or bribe me to get the thing you know I've got done posted...

I dunno. Not commissions and not pay content, but I am open to a bribe.

Also.

Anybody want to help me test a chemistry mod?

Also, regarding broken mediafire links!

I have a Sims File Share account now! Going through and adding mirrored (or, uh, corrected) links is on the to-do list, but in case I'm slower at that than you want? I think I uploaded pretty much everything that's still, you know, good.

Hairs
Accessories
Clothes generally coming soon I have surprises so I'm not just linking that whole thing yet
Infant Swaddling
Infants & Toddlers I no longer personally use
Default Replacements
Objects
Secret Santas & Blind Dates & Advents
Makeup
Mods
Build Mode
Heraldic
Resources