And... Back.

[hat_plays_sims]

Okay, so that took a lot longer than the few weeks I thought it would, but I've been in Lurker Mode for a long time. Lots has happened out in, you know, non-internet reality (including a kitchen remodel that Mom and I have been wanting for ten years, guys, do not remodel your kitchen if you aren't absolutely positive you have other places to put all the stuff that goes into your kitchen for at least a month, and also plenty of food that can just go straight from the fridge to your mouth), but this is a Simming blog and you guys deserve Simming posts. And boy oh boy, do I have Simming posts for you. I didn't actually stop CREATING while I was on hiatus, I just sort of stopped keeping up with... lots and lots of things. And in the last week or two, I finally started posting them-- I just decided to keep the posts private until I'd uploaded everything I had ready to go. If you don't want to scroll through my DW, you can just click these handy dandy links:

1. Hair Dump X Part One: The Franchise Reboot, Part Two: Hair Dump From the Black-And-Blue Lagoon, and Part Three: Nobody Expects the HAT Dump!
2. Sign of the Plumb Bob (Nichellerj's Plumb Bob Necklace with way too many recolors)
3. I Feel The Earth Move (selected Yuxi Oblivion, Druid Wow, and Kativip MS and LS floors as terrain paints)
4. The King Is In His Counting-House (Non-depreciating face-value coins on Worship4ever meshes)
5. Du Lac Cotehardies and Tunics (TF-EF recolors of Cynnix's Laced-Sleeve Gown and TM-EF recolors of Cynnix and Oph3lia's edits of Aligeth's Robin Hood Tunic)
6. Never Enough Thatch (Bon Voyage Thatched Roofs in select Project Mayhem and Any Color You Like actions)
7. Through A Glass Darkly (Medieval leaded recolors of Mustluvcats's Privacy Film)
8. Hangerock (twelve very simple Viking apron dresses on a Trapping mesh)
9. Invoking the Spirit (Bonehilda-as-Spectral-Assistant defaults (with faechangeling), Bonehilda outfits, and K8's Fairy Witch gown EA'd)
10. Le Chausseur, la Deuxième Partie (Chausses and braises for Aquilegia's Androgyny, Aquilegia's Improved Fatmorph, FantasyRogue's bottom-only chausses, and Cynnix's age conversions of FR's bottom-only chausses.)
11. Bonne Nuit (A dozen chemises with ZoeJ textures)
12. The Modest Lady (Sherahbim's Lady gown simplified a bit)

So there's that.

I will also still be in lurker mode for a while in terms of the general Simming community-- I do love and I have missed the social aspect of Sims 2, but it's actually pretty daunting to say 'today I will start keeping up with everything!' I will be trying to keep up with comments and private messages here a lot better, and I still have a lot left on my to-do list, so it should be a lot easier to get in touch with me. (I do not promise prompt replies, but I promise I will reply. Unless I can't tell you from spammers. There've been a LOT of spambots on my DW lately. Some of them have actually said quite complimentary things, even if they are halfway to incomprehensible.)

Like an idiot, of course, I decided to post this on a day when I'm planning to run errands, but I'm out of ready-to-upload content and I don't want to make you guys wait any longer.

I'm also looking for someone to help me with object creation-- recolorability and indoor shadows in particular. I think I've almost got that buyable-toybox-toys project licked, but the indoor shadows are giving me fits and I'd hate for folks to have to clone a new toy every time the world needs a recolored rocket ship.

Comments

[nathanialroyale]

It's so awesome to see you uploading stuff again Hat! Your creations have always been high quality and now that I'm doing a period/fantasy game I'm always in need of new medieval goodies :D

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you! I hope you find something you like in my downloads today-- I've been working hard lately on polishing up the rough, non-period edges in my game.

[curiousb]

I haven't even had time to look at your new offerings yet, but I just wanted to say welcome back - it's good to see you again! :D

[hat_plays_sims]

It's good to be back, thank you! RL can be one long kick in the pants.

[oph3lia]

Good to see you back Hat! :)

Also YAY downloads.

[hat_plays_sims]

It's good to be back, or at least openly back instead of lurking in various places. At least when I disappear for, um, eight months, I come back with half a gig of content!

[psychosim]

I made an epic gasp when I read in best finds that you're back. Like, I breathed in air until no more could go in. :D So good to read news from you, Hat! And just last week there was a simsecret about missing you. :)

[hat_plays_sims]

That is an epic gasp indeed! I'd give myself the hiccups if I gasped like that. I'm glad to be back, thank you!

[winterinverona.livejournal.com]

I was late to the party of you and your awesomeness, so I am thrilled that I can fangirl a moment and say THANK YOU for your creations. Without your goodies, my game would be about 1/10th as good-looking and fun as it is now. You're just brilliant!

[hat_plays_sims]

Oh, wow, thank you, that's incredibly flattering! I'm glad you've enjoyed my goodies.

[mswn.livejournal.com]

Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!
So happy to see you! Can't wait to delve into your new batch of goodies!

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you! I'm happy to be back. I hope you find something you like!

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Hat!! You're back!!

I'm so glad to see you here, and ok! Welcome back to the Simming community! Even if you don't have time to be chatting and keeping up with stuff, it's great just to see you around. :D

[hat_plays_sims]

Thanks! It's good to be back!

[currantpotpie]

Welcome back Hat! You have been missed!

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you!

Woot!

[(Anonymous)]

I was just thinking about you this week -- and suddenly you're back with giant dumps of all sorts of goodies!

Thanks much!

Miros

Re: Woot!

[hat_plays_sims]

Interesting timing! I hope you find something you like.

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, Hat. This is heget from Plumbob, and I'm here to confess to your face (digitally via dreamwidth, so yeah, doesn't count) I'm one of your biggest fans/stalkers. Not only your creations, your sharing of knowledge, but also your lovely wishlists have been MAJOR inspiration for me to create and share w/ the wider Sims community.
I'm glad to see you back in any form- and that you decided to share some goodies was a nice plus, I'll admit. :P
I would offer my assistance, but I'm not all that good at some of the more 'fiddly' areas of creation (and backtrack on stuff I thought I could create).

If nothing else, as long as you're willing to make crazy mega-sets for a pseudo-medieval Sims world, I am.

[hat_plays_sims]

Hiya, Heget! I kind of completely love your stuff, too-- there are so many things you've made much more workable for Medieval Sims, like computers. I'm glad the wishlists inspire! That's half of what they're there for.

I'm not a mesher, so creating new objects is... not really my forte. I can remove the indoor shadows, but I can't figure out how to make them work like shadows instead of flat panels of solid black-and-white.

I am always willing to make crazy mega-sets, because I do not know when to stop pushing the 'play action' button in Photoshop.

[aquilegia]

Oh, it's good to see you around again. :) I've been wondering how you were doing.

[hat_plays_sims]

I'm doing okay! I just haven't been very social for the last while.

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

I am so excited! Thank you for all of this. -Chicklet

Re: Thank you!

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome! I hope you find something you like.

[(Anonymous)]

OMG you're back! I'm so happy! *does bunny dance*
And with so many goodies too! Dowloadspree ahoy! XD

Mostly I'm just happy to hear from you though. And glad that things seem to be alright.
(I know very well how remodeling and renovations can take over one's life and house. ^^ But as long as you're happy with the results it's soooo worth it, right?)

Have fun with catching up on things!
~Ann (from the Plumbbob Keep)

[hat_plays_sims]

We are nowhere near done with the house. There are two bathrooms that desperately need gutting, a yard with twenty years worth of deferred landscaping, and every now and then Mom and I look at each other and go "Maybe new windows? Or a new bannister?" Lots of changes, but mostly necessary ones.

I hope you find some goodies you like!

[eefje00704]

Hat! *hugs tight and doesn't let go*

Please don't disappear on us again. I've really missed having you around at GoS and PBK.

And of course a huge thank you for all these new sets! I grabbed almost everything, but especially the hat hairs and the BV and CS hairs are what I've really been waiting for.

I'm also really sorry that I basically haven't gotten anywhere with your saint statues. University was a bit of a challenge this year (still is, I'm still working on my thesis) plus resizing statues is not at all difficult but pretty boring and yeah ... it just didn't happen. Although I do have a few that I resized during a particularly boring class that only need the SimPE work done, I think. I'm still planning to do them, I just can't make any promises as to when.

[hat_plays_sims]

I'll give it my best shot, but I suspect I'll mostly be hanging around DW for a while, until things are closer to finished in the house. I'm also deliberately trying to spend more time with Mom these days, so that's cut back in my online socializing, too.

You should go hit up the CS hairs and the hats again, I fixed my broken links. (I'm not surprised I had broken links. I'm surprised in fourteen posts that I only had three broken links.)

I know the feeling when you can promise things will get done but not when. I've been promising myself I'd finish my heraldry set for, oh, about three years now, and I still need to find a good snake and a good boar. And considering how much of what I make involves a brief period of creativity followed by several hours of clicky-button work that could be done by a robot monkey, I know exactly how 'not at all difficult but pretty boring' goes.

[jadesim]

So good to have you back! It was great to have you pop up on my reading list again. The new stuff looks fantastic, thank you for sharing it :)

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you, it's good to be back! I hope you find something you like in the new stuff.

[ndainye]

Yay! Hat's back! You brought pretties and that's pretty great but mostly it's just awesome to see you back around!!

[hat_plays_sims]

Aw, thank you! I'm glad to be back.

[mrskilgoretrout]

So glad you're back! No one inspires me to create a medieval hood quite like you do. :)

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you! I hope you've found something you like in my new goodies!

Putting the Hat back on!

[(Anonymous)]

Glad to see you back HAT and as a fan glad to see you kept those creation skills going while on Sim posting hiatus! Thanks for the update and for all the new gifts! Awesomeness as usual! Especially love the updates to Worships coins and the BV roof recolours...ah I love it all! But most importantly, it's just great you've returned to the community in your own way and at your own pace. :)

Re: Putting the Hat back on!

[hat_plays_sims]

Anon, I have no idea who you are, but that was super-flattering! Thank you so much, I'm glad you're enjoying my 'I'm not dead' downloads.

[silverbelle1220]

Welcome back! I wish I had something more intelligent to say than that, but I don't. Just glad to see you're okay.

Oh, and thank you for the lovely hairs. I can't wait to use them in my game.

[hat_plays_sims]

I'm doing okay, and 'welcome back' is plenty intelligent and very good to hear. Thank you!

And you're welcome for the hairs. I am actually for the first time ever totally caught up on my hair to-do list.

[eien_herrison]

Adding to the chorus of 'welcome back'. I had been wondering how much RL was affecting you, so glad to hear you've been fine these past months (the new content is a nice bonus).

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you! I have been okay, just, as I've said, busy enough that when I got to the internet, all I wanted to do was sit quietly and read fanfiction, or restlessly recolor dresses, instead of socialize.

[nikonsnow.livejournal.com]

Just one more welcome back. :) I can't help it, I'm so glad to see you!

[hat_plays_sims]

I don't mind one more welcome back! It's good to be back, thank you!

[lovelyxwow]

While it's nice to have updates again, it's even nicer to see you around again, even in lurker mode! :) Hi!

[hat_plays_sims]

That's so sweet of you to say, thank you!