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hat_plays_simsHoneywell's 3t2 Aurora Skies Pride & Joy wooden refrigerator (requires Free Time and) comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals over that blend of SDA Castle Kitchen and Piggi Wood 03 I like so much, with the original textures for hardware.
Please note, the mesh comes packaged with three recolors of the wood and a couple of the art, including the invisible art recolor (which I generally recommend with a period game). Also note, I did not alter the contents of the fridge, as that calls for default replacing. The food is still modern and pre-packaged.
Is this thing period?
No, not exactly, but Sims need fridges.
Like there's nothing inherently wrong with it (though the charm of the slightly-uneven door panels is a modern thing; when all you could get was handcrafted, the handcrafters tried to make things flawless, but when the easiest thing to get is mass-produced, the slight wonk of handmade things becomes charming), it's a big cupboard you keep food in. It's just that generally in a Medieval kitchen, food would be stored... uh, everywhere? Dried or salted things hanging from the rafters, smoked things hanging above the hearth fires, grain in a bin and the fresh stuff ready to go in the pot. This is partly because the lovely big pieces of wood used to build a cupboard like this would, in most kitchens, be better put to use under the pot or the spit-- or as a tabletop.
But Sims need fridges! And generally don't have to worry about building their own furniture or running out of mature trees.
This fridge has actually given me so much trouble to get a title card of. It's affected by my graphics card issue that makes textures go blurry after too long, and unlike clothing? The Safety Fuse recolor that looks so nice in the Creature Feature household kitchen doesn't like to come back after saving and exiting to the neighborhood.
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Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
Please note, the mesh comes packaged with three recolors of the wood and a couple of the art, including the invisible art recolor (which I generally recommend with a period game). Also note, I did not alter the contents of the fridge, as that calls for default replacing. The food is still modern and pre-packaged.
Is this thing period?
No, not exactly, but Sims need fridges.
Like there's nothing inherently wrong with it (though the charm of the slightly-uneven door panels is a modern thing; when all you could get was handcrafted, the handcrafters tried to make things flawless, but when the easiest thing to get is mass-produced, the slight wonk of handmade things becomes charming), it's a big cupboard you keep food in. It's just that generally in a Medieval kitchen, food would be stored... uh, everywhere? Dried or salted things hanging from the rafters, smoked things hanging above the hearth fires, grain in a bin and the fresh stuff ready to go in the pot. This is partly because the lovely big pieces of wood used to build a cupboard like this would, in most kitchens, be better put to use under the pot or the spit-- or as a tabletop.
But Sims need fridges! And generally don't have to worry about building their own furniture or running out of mature trees.
This fridge has actually given me so much trouble to get a title card of. It's affected by my graphics card issue that makes textures go blurry after too long, and unlike clothing? The Safety Fuse recolor that looks so nice in the Creature Feature household kitchen doesn't like to come back after saving and exiting to the neighborhood.
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
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Date: 2023-01-15 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-15 12:04 pm (UTC)But Buy Mode Blitz has been something I've been picking at since 2015, a piece at a time, right before I went on that long hiatus. There was a dream in my head of regularly releasing backlogged content, but this month I just sort of went "You know what, fuck it, what do I have swatch screenshots for?" and started working on getting title cards done.
There's more still to come, but a lot of it is going to take longer either because I need something my testerhood does not have to adequately title-card it (a baby, children, a cat, a stately room large enough to get a pic of Sim Ages entire six-tile table) or because someone (Frac) added a subset and I need to remake recolors (4ESF trash compactor) or because the original had a Problem I did not notice until I'd taken outdoor swatches and tried to dress an indoor set for title card pics (I have hundreds of TXMT files to fix, why did you do this to me, 8k Sims, I just want floor seating and dining for the Far East, why is everything so dark like badly-shifted wall decor on a foundation).
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Date: 2023-01-15 12:22 pm (UTC)Why did you disappear for so long, anyway, if you don't mind me asking? I assumed you got burnt out and were taking a break, but obviously you've been poking at stuff this whole time.
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Date: 2023-01-15 12:47 pm (UTC)Mostly just... reality closing in on me in ways that left me MUCH less energy to manage the social aspects of Being In The Sims Community. Family drama, The Entire Political Situation 2016-2020, that sort of thing. Things went haywire this past summer, too, only with Minor Health Event thrown in the mix-- which might be helping to fuel my 'just get it all posted, anything you can justifiably post, post it' frenzy.
It's never the making things. I've always gotta be making things in some way. It's all the little finishing moves that I can't seem to work on unless I'm hyperfocused on them... and a big enough setback makes the brain go "... hm. Time to focus on another hobby for a while," because the brain is avoidant like that.
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Date: 2023-01-15 05:11 pm (UTC)I'm the opposite. Sims, in all its iterations, is my Very Bad No Good Depression game, to the point that if people see me playing it they ask me if I'm okay, which is both a little embarrassing and wonderful to enjoy the premise of being known.
I'm glad things have calmed down enough for you to start picking up your hobbies again. Recovery, in at it's iterations, is a blessing.
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Date: 2023-01-15 10:54 pm (UTC)Ahh, escapism. The Sims is very good at making you focus on something other than reality, it's true.
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Date: 2023-03-20 01:27 pm (UTC)