Progress Report and Announcement

[hat_plays_sims]

Short smocks with hosen are done, and I'm working on separate tops with hosen-- that'll be at least another couple of days, I need to texture reference. AF is done and I've got all my info copied... but I also want to see if I can categorize separates for Maternity. And then I have to make bottom-only kirtles (base textures are done, actually) because it doesn't make sense to release tops without bottoms. Still debating on whether or not I want to add belts; I can't add aprons to these bottoms because I'd have to change the alpha. I am SUPER PROUD of my lacings.

The announcement is, I finally got my fanfic DW up and running! Well, up and strolling in a leisurely fashion, anyway. Currently it's all Monster High and Transformers (Beast Wars and 2007 movie) fanfiction, mostly one-shots and vignettes, so if you like stories based on media based on toys that won't take you all day to read, I am apparently your girl.

Oh, and also, I found this on Crab's tumblr and wanted to link it here, too, because this blog is equal parts Sims and historical nerdery, and finding out that same-sex marriage was a thing the Catholic church did in the Early Middle Ages, man, that is the kind of awesome historical nerdery that I thrive on.

EDIT: Yep, separates work in other categories! I don't know if they work okay without being flagged as Casual, or if they work in CAS (because I only flagged things for Maternity, like a ninny), but they work in the Plan Outfit dialogue! (This is very exciting, because if anyone ever does a rucked-up top-only dress with two groups, I can make it so everybody can throw an extra dress on over their everyday bottom-only dress of choice.) Onwards to wide-laced short-sleeved bottom-only kirtles!

Comments

[ariunderscore]

I have Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe in print form, and can heavily recommend it if you're into that kind of historical nerdery.

[hat_plays_sims]

I'll see if my library has it. I have a short stack of books I need to sit down and read and make some notes on, and checking out a library book usually encourages me to sit down and finish the book instead of doing all my research on the internet, punctuated by YouTube breaks and 'well let's see if anybody updated their tumblr.'

I love (and yet am disappointed by) research that helps to show the progress of social equality has never, ever been a straight upward climb.