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stevie: your local LV quadriplegic jewish equestrian simmer 🕊️🏳️‍⚧️ any pronouns, though please avoid ‘they’ whenever possible. this is blog is always sfw, but strict 18+ only to interact. endos, maps, radqueers, maga, true crime, and their supporters are not welcome here. [simhorseblr @barrhead-ts3] / [personal @17ppm]

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About: WCIF friendly, SFW only, won’t follow back indiscriminately and will block as needed. I only offer my work (imports, simports, lots, etc.) to EQ members, and will not answer requests made via askbox.

simblr here, personal blog here, barn site, club site, tack shop

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Still here; still trying; still suffering. ✨

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They could have just added a Notifs On/Off feature for reblogs without taking the OP’s notifications away.

Give notifs to both the poster and the reblogger. Don’t want notifs for your interaction on a multi-million-reblog viral post? Just tick off the Notifications for Reblogged Posts option in blog settings, or maybe even give us a Notify Me About This Post option on the reblog page.

This is so ridiculously bad for user safety, especially minor and marginalized users, that it wouldn’t seem real…if it was a decision made by literally anyone on G-d’s green Earth other than Tumblr Staff at Tumblr Dot Com. Or Elon Musk.

Keep complaining about this a week, a month, and two months from now. They want us to just whine for a couple days and then forget about it like we always do.

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The Never-Ending WIP: Flagged by Tumblr in <1 minute edition!

Shocking news: I'm not dead! Just been going through hell in my own life and preparing for displacement later in the year.

Please accept my WIP disaster import as penance. BRHD Trou Normand "Abbie" is almost (or over?) four years in the making, and I think the finish line is finally in sight!

2026 Housekeeping Notes for EQ Members Below

‣My Discord username, formerly 13ppm, is now 17ppm. ‣IN-STRIDE opening is still coming soon. My biggest barrier right now is just reassessing some things with the main site introduction and finishing some more poses for opening. ‣I'm still really hoping 2026 will be the year I can get some show entries and the beginning of my story posts, but it's going to depend fully on what the second half of this year brings. ‣I still have a backlog of import WIPs. Thank you for your patience!

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Access Eq staff member Lia enjoys only the finer things in life: plants, plants, and (killing her) plants. 🌱 (Early-stage WIP!)

Please excuse the absence; I recently lost my still-quite-new housing placement, dead in the middle of a blizzard and the emigration process with a very broken wheelchair and nowhere to go.

I have been scrambling to figure out what to do. My laptop is with me, but not much that I'd be doing with it is a huge priority right now. I plan to queue up some of what little I have been working on for the next week or two to fill in some of the gap while I continue to make my US exit plan.

Credit: The unfurnished lot shell is The Eklund, created by @fakehousesrealawesome and then heavily restructured, gutted, and decorated by myself. While I prioritize building my facility lots & worlds all from scratch, I find a bit of sweet realism and charm in moving my sims into pre-built houses. Thank you so much to FHRA for sharing your beautiful houses!

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Barrhead School (et. al.) Announcement!

After a long, long morning of Carrd struggles and how-to video-hopping, we've got a website! Several, in fact!

Barrhead School of Horsemanship (Barn Site)

Barrhead School Saddlery (Our CC & CC Finds)

Ride #IN-STRIDE! (Our club on EQ!)

All are still very obviously WIPs, featuring placeholder images from my screenshot graveyard only, and still a significant amount of placeholder text in some spots as well, but at least we've got takeoff! This is something that I'd been meaning to do for years.

The vibe is intended to be 45% professional, 45% campy, and 10% how do you do, fellow kids? lmaoo. I'm really happy with how they're turning out. I never thought I'd actually get this far with these projects...or be able to make myself a website when the time came.

Links have been added to the nav post as well. There's only so much to see, but most of the buttons should be working, so feel free to click around and explore! (And please let me know if anything seems like it isn't doing what it should haha.)

Alt-text coming ASAP.

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A little scenery update from both sides of my world: small tweaks I've made while getting back into CAW that didn't feel BigTM or special enough to warrant a dedicated post with multiple angles, but do make me feel a little happy to look at.

Of note: the middle (largest) image is a preview of where the paradressage arenas are set to go. Peeking through those trees will eventually show the back of one of the accessible viewing pavilions.

The left-side image below that is eventually going to be the Counselor-in-Training pool/clubhouse spot for summer camp.

Progress is slower than steady, but looking at these really makes me feel like I can see the finish line: distant still, but imaginable. 🌱

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I'm on my way back! Relocating has been a little rocky (to the tune of no shower, bathroom sink, or heat for the first week and a half, and still no laundry) but I'm mostly done unpacking. Really did not have that much to take in the first place.

I'll be a little bit longer to start getting back into a habit of world and build and horse progress, but I kinda wanted to treat myself to something more mindless tonight: a new sim!

I've put off working on my human characters for so long. 3/4 of them end up unsalvageable with glitched eyes, and none of the skins I have work below the neck. It's so defeating and I'll be sad to see this one inevitably lost to my game too, but I do like her for now!

Thanks for your patience during this unexpectedly turbulent process.

✨Meet Aiana!✨

Do not steal. Neither ableism nor body negativity will be tolerated here! Likes/reblogs are fine, but don't make objectifying comments about my sims. Aiana’s pronouns are she/her.

(I've also updated my nav post with a new banner! Most of the links themselves don't work, but... the banner sure is cute, right?)

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Fiona (of "scratching at the 2024 Olympics with a mule who mysteriously went lame for about two and a half hours on trot-up day" fame) recently moved into a new basement apartment at 25 Lakeside Dr., and has been settling in quite nicely! Would you believe me if I told you this is barely 35% of what she's bringing with her?

If it wasn’t clear by the empty shelf space, non-recolored stuff, no ceiling, and room to walk around, this is a massive WIP!

Credit: Much thanks to @mystery-pixels for listing their unfurnished Ender Falls houses up for download. As I've said before, after literal years of building all my facility lots, club lots, and associated worlds up from scratch, it always feels nice to move my sims into houses that only need decorating and cluttering. It's a relief for me, as well as a touch of sweet realism to see my sims in the houses that I've seen others live in with their own setups and styles before. I would not have this escape from building and CAW and club prep without the wonderful creators who are still sharing their stuff with our community after all these years. Thank you so, so much!

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Facility World Previews ✨

I couldn't even venture a guess as to when the last time I actually got to work on my facility was. More goes into planning, building, and building for a club than anyone who hasn’t done it could possibly imagine!

The Barrhead & Access Eq facilities have officially divorced the IN-STRIDE map, and both are now happily situated in their own worlds!

I can finally finish developing both sides without worrying about file size or item density, and hopefully some of the facility-side lots I’ve been preparing in my crappy studio world will start making their way over in the coming weeks!

I’m actually pretty happy with the way things are shaping up. :)

Under the cut: scenery around the barn driveway that wasn’t *pretty* enough to be included.

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Activity Update

I got my notice today that my new placement will be ready for move-in on October 13th. As my EQ friends know, I live largely off-grid in the woods and currently don’t have my own internet.

My new placement will be largely the same, but I will have access to hotspot boxes which should give me at least a little more freedom to post, update my laptop, send files, etc. without having to travel for it.

My schedule will still be spotty and unpredictable, but when I’m available, I should be available to actually do more things!

(Big SHOULDs because we won’t know exactly how well anything actually works until we start trying it all out. Please don’t expect a smooth transition or anything too new and exciting just yet.)

The IN-STRIDE club opening, as well as on-property Barrhead and Access Eq leases, lessons, events, collabs, etc., have all been moved to January 2026 to take some of the stress off my plate while I move and catch up on what hasn’t been possible to finish here.

Thank you for your continued patience! We can’t wait to be able to welcome you all in!

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As if being mired in the moving process, several recent hospital stays, and suffering a house fire in August wasn't LifeTM enough for life to be, I was hit by a car the other day while crossing the street.

My wheelchair, as broken as it was before this, undoubtedly saved my life, but neither it nor I are in very good shape at the moment.

I haven't been able to sit at my desk for too too long, let alone get out of the house as often for wi-fi, but I feel like I deserve a little extra sims time when I can!

First views of the #IN-STRIDE show jumping and marathon driving warmup rings, plus a little sneak peek at the marathon course. 🌱

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Progress update! Two of the four baybies from our last WIP dump already have glowups to share (still wearing default white markings because I haven't finished their custom legs and faces yet.) Very proud of how both their coats and confos turned out.✨

Offdensen BSH & Barrhead's Straight Outta Hades have already started making their R show rounds, and will hopefully be ready with all their chrome to start the T show circuit soon!

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Following a house fire caused by my own level of disability and two unrelated hospitalizations, my time and capacity for both The Sims and traveling for wi-fi have been completely nil - but I did want to queue up this to start the new month off while I have the chance.

Various Barrhead horses in various stages of doneness, so please don’t look too close lol. Especially at the gray marking and the two right-side bays. In order:

Left to right: BRHD Iko Iko “Sugar” with custom WIP tobiano marking; middle: Phillynice BSH “Pico”; right: Barrhead’s .44 Special “Slater” with custom dapples and white markings (the snip isn’t staying.)

Dead Meme BSH “Astley” WIP marking

Ruchbah Starmobile BSH “Galaxy” WIP marking

BSH Appy Hour “Martini” WIP marking

Barrhead’s Quellazaire “Smokey” WIP marking

BRHD Iko Iko “Sugar” WIP marking

BSH Tanngnjóstr “Tanner” WIP marking

Left: BRHD Argonaut “Arden”; right: Offdensen BSH “Charlie”

Left: Howbouttapepsi BSH “Pepsi”; right: Barrhead’s Straight Outta Hades “Benji”

Barrhead’s Movin’ Right Along “Fozzie” with WIP roan and white markings

I am having to relocate again for safety (unrelated to the fire) sometime in the next few weeks. The place I’m going to will have wi-fi, and so if my health goes back to baseline, I should be able to be active again sooner or later.

Plenty on the way for IN-STRIDE’s opening and CAW progress for my own facility, so hopefully I have enough backlog to post a little more regularly even if that doesn’t quite happen until after the move.

Thanks for being patient, and hopefully, I’ll be back for real soon!

Fine to reblog, but do not steal.

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After a month of being unable to leave the house for wi-fi, and enough build progress to make all of my queued posts irrelevant, an update on the showgrounds. 🌱

The IN-STRIDE club will open its doors in July 2025, with a debut show scheduled for August.

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WIP Marking Dump [pt. 1]

Because I made some updates to the IN-STRIDE show world in CAW that immediately rendered my queued post for the other night irrelevant (and a little embarrassing by comparison.)

I’ll re-queue those for later when I have decent out-of-B/B screenshots, but in the meantime, here are some markings I’ve been working on! All very rough still, so please be kind. ✨

(Pictured above: Barrhead’s Fresh Brewed Daily “Latte” – WIP import #4/6 for Calvert Eq’s hano program)

Barrhead’s Movin’ Right Along “Fozzie” – TPR geld in Access Eq’s hippotherapy program; restarted because I somehow managed to delete his entire Photoshop folder.

BRHD Iko Iko “Sugar” – CobX mare for Access Eq’s English riding program; will be available for full or half-lease June 2025

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Humble junior XC preview. ✨ (feat. behind-the-bleachers bistro and photo-op horse pal.)