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sims 4 cc & gameplay rory / they/them / lesbian / jewish loner, dog-lover, creative

[almondblues]

                                   ✡︎    jewish sims project   ✡︎                        

There's not nearly enough Jewish representation in The Sims -- in-game or on simblr -- so I’m issuing a little challenge to encourage other people to create Jewish sims! Nothing fancy, just ... make some Jewish sims! Tag me in your posts and/or tag your post with “jewishsimsproject” so I can be sure to see and share them!

 cc suggestions: some of this cc is from inactive blogs, so i linked to @simsrael​‘s reblogs for them instead!

@spicehounds​ -- jewish living cc @femmeonamissionsims​ -- tichel with tails cherrypiesims -- magen david necklace & ugly hannukah sweaters @plumbobium -- yarmulke

                          Shabbat shalom, I love y’all. ♡

[almondblues]

I'm making a second blog, go find me over there if you want to listen to me cry about jaheira from baldur's gate 24 hours a day bc I'm not gonna put you guys through this lol

[almondblues]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

a break from our entirely unscheduled programming to announce that i wrote something. if you like baldur's gate, dangerous sapphics, or middle-aged women having sex lives you should check it out. <3

Jaheira was bloody maddening. Striding into her guildhall, casual as can be and notably not dead, as if she hadn't left to go pick a fight with a god without so much as a goodbye. Showing up entirely uninvited when she should have been out playing the hero of Baldur's Gate, grabbing her by the shirt, and kissing her breathless as though nothing had happened at all. Gods, that woman was a lot of things, but she'd never been boring.

Jaheira x Nine-Fingers Keene

[my-darling-boy]

I was sad until I opened the Sims and made a dog called Chocolate Milk and I think you should look at him

[queenofthewasteland]

i was sad until i opened tumblr and saw a dog called Chocolate Milk and i think you should look at him

[fadedlovemp3]

not unfollowing a mutual who hasnt posted in 9 months out of loyalty and love like a widow still setting a place at the dinner table for her husband who died in the war 

[almondblues]

issue the sims team should probably get a handle on: if your sim has a curfew that curfew apparently still applies at prom and there’s no way to get rid of it :(

[whiimms]

justice for raj rasoya - a quick rant about townie makeovers

so i was casually scrolling on my dash and i saw someone playing with the city living townies. i was appalled when i realized that one of these sims was intended to be raj rasoya, a sikh chef living in the spice market of san myshuno. the sim in the post looked drastically different to raj, he was barely recognizable until i checked the tags. i then began looking at his tag on tumblr, and it’s lowkey making me sick to my stomach.

i don’t know why i’m uncomfortable with this, or it it’s just me but it’s so unsettling to see people either white wash, slim down, or remove raj’s turban when they make him over. i don’t understand the need that people have to change raj into something completely unrecognizable because he doesn’t fit western beauty standards. why must we make him have a chiseled bod and lightly tanned skin? why do we feel the need to make his nose smaller and remove his nose bridge? why do we feel the need to remove his turban?

the turban and even the kara (bracelet raj and geeta wear) are both symbols of their faith. it begs me to ask the question, would the perpetrators that have white washed raj do the same to an EA townie that’s hijabi? probably not - at least, i would hope not. 

this is weird and lowkey not okay. it’s quite clear that EA intended for the rasoyas to be sikh. why are we trying to erase their ethnic features and backgrounds?

now before you guys come at me, i’m going to say that - it’s your game i’m not policing you - however, i am pointing out how weird and disrespectful it comes across to actively erase the features and religious qualities of townies that were specifically given these identities. 

thank you for coming to my ted talk. please let me know if this is just a me issue, i’m genuinely curious to see how other people feel about this. my inbox is open, and i’d be happy to chat. it says my comments are enabled, but people have had trouble with commenting on my posts before, so just shoot me an ask instead!

[wonderjada-deactivated20221105]

just rebloging this again bc it’s very important

[almondblues]

i’m back, baby

[almondblues]

am i losing my mind or are the sims team literally just stealing things from custom content creators and dropping them straight into the game? half the new items in the last two packs seem to just be worse versions of what y’all have already made.

[cosmikclouds]

ace + aro pride!!

[junipermeadows]

Check out this online photo editor! It's called Photopea and it almost mimics Photoshop to a T. It can also handle DDS files!

[almondblues]

I’ll be putting together an entire cottagecore cc folder for this pack, mark my words

[thesims4blogger]

The Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion: Official Screenshots

Maxis has released the official screenshots for The Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion Pack

[almondblues]

HELLO IF YOU NEED ME I WILL BE LIVING MY SHTETLCORE DREAMS

[almondblues]

ari is probably going to be my legacy founder and i cannot get over how cute they are -- i might actually manage to stick with this save file for once!

magen david ; cherrypiesims (deleted blog) |  blanche sweater ; @clumsyalienn​  |  high-waisted jeans ; @miikocc​  |  boots ; @tunayegit​ 

[almondblues]

on another, lighter note, dm me to add me on animal crossing?? i’m new and i want friends!

[almondblues]

has anyone ever had a glitch where the world shadows move around with you when you pan the camera? i’ve been trying to fix it for ages and I can’t figure out what’s wrong. i was trying to install lighting mods awhile back, but i’m pretty sure i fixed it so idk what’s wrong?

[almondblues]

@frubynoo​ did the cutest picrew so now i’m doin it too ♡