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the reactions and conversations i've been seeing on simblr lately have been disgusting and disturbing. i'm coming to the realization that a lot of you guys are wolves in sheep's clothing. the response to black and brown simmers expressing their disappointment in the community they're a part of should never be "you are acting so entitled!"
entitled to what? a realistic experience in a community built upon a game that has always been about personalization and representation? is it seriously too much to ask to have hair cc that represents your own hairstyle in a sandbox life simulator? i'm sorry, but some of you have gotten extremely comfortable letting your racism show.
"i only make the content i want! if you want this kind of content, make it yourself!" you need to ask yourself why you only want to make cc based on eurocentric standards of beauty. why are you so afraid of having the slightest bit of melanin in your game?
i am a white person before i am gay, before i am trans, before i am autistic. some of you guys need to realize this as well. racism is a bonding experience between races and what i've been seeing is blatant and unapologetic racism. my friends have been getting dogpiled and dragged every which way by some very loud and very bold people who i think need to educate themselves. some of yall need to confront your own internalized racism. do not settle for a sub-par experience in a community that needs to do better just because you think it's what you deserve.
rounding this post out, i want you all to know that my page is made for people of any race, gender, sexuality, etc. i do not care what you look like, if you love this game the same way i do i want you to be a part of my page. that being said, racism, transphobia, homophobia, basically any kind of discrimination will not be tolerated. i use my own education, my own discretion, and my own block button to determine who i want on this page. do the same if you have an issue with anything i've said. i do not want you on my fucking page if you think referring to people of color as "you people" is acceptable or adult behavior. you look stupid as fuck.
to be honest with you i was pretty angry when i wrote this but i agree with everything i said. i want to add a few things onto this.
1. white people in this community need to start speaking up and speaking out against racism. it should not only be on people of color to express their disappointment and discomfort in a racist community. if there is a single good bone in your body and you are white, get angry, get loud, get defensive, and use your voice for those who get ridiculed, bullied, and even further harmed by racism when they post about it. do not turn a blind eye anymore. it is not only up to people of color to try to build a healthy community.
2. i want permanent change. we need to start calling these racist people out, we need to start excluding them. do not download or reblog their content, as far as i'm aware these people do not exist. who knows if this will bring real change, but we cannot be powerless and motionless.
3. intersectionality is the core of a great movement. we need to start caring about each other a lot more because individualism kills movements. the aim of the oppressor is to divide and conquer. if we start hating each other because "i don't like gay content" or "i just don't have a lot of people of color in my game" or whatever weak excuse people say noawadays, true change will never come.
i know i sound pretty hopeful about real reform but i think it's possible. i also know that there's some people going "why do you hate white people so much if you're white?" and i want those people to stop and think about what ive said for a moment. i do not hate white people. in fact, hate gets us nowhere. white people, myself included, are taught racism from the systemic structures that form a society and the people that bring us up. it is an unavoidable fact that all people have been racist before or are currently now racist. yes, that one time in elementary school counts. it all counts and it all matters. if people of color are forced to experience racism on the day to day, i think white people can confront the fact that we are the largest perpetuators of racist ideas.
so what do we do now? well, we aren't too far gone and i know that miseducation is a huge factor in racism. start using the resources at your disposal. you can start reading about it, angela davis is an incredibly accomplished author who has some great things to say. if reading isn't your thing, there are some great youtubers who speak on race-related issues. f.d. signifier's videos on black conservatism opened my eyes. foreign fridays/foreign man in a foreign land has some really great videos. they both analyze modern issues through a lens of intersectionality and critical race theory. please also note that just watching these videos is not activism or anything like that. use what you learn to help. get educated, it's free!
finally, my goal is to help. people get a lot less angry at white people for speaking up on these issues which you can tell by the way that my comment section is void of the usual ridicule and insults that people of color get thrown at them. if what im saying is counterproductive, or if i've said something insensitive, it is your right to critique me and my arguments. i want to do better and constructive criticism lets me know where i need to do better.
buncha portraits pt. 2 🖼️
Literally every default face template set on earth that I've ever seen be like: what if every single sim looked the exact same as each other. and also they're all white
Can't have Asian features or Black features or Indigenous features because they're too #ugly and the Sims 2 community memes on it constantly about how #gross and #ugly they are and how that's why we need defaults that are just 25 clones of the same white guy with a button nose and round eyes. Oh and elf and alien I guess. I GUESS.
"but what if i want my sims to look UNIQUE instead of looking like Maxis face template sim #3874358" you know you can make unique looking sims with the maxis templates right. you know you can just Do that, right. it's not hard. for fuck's sake.
also bold take but i don't think 28 templates with the same vague shape of fucking button noses and round eyes are "unique"
Isbrealiomcaife's All Around the World face templates have been around for over 20 years. 8 years ago @ivy-sims uploaded custom versions of the default faces in the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese installs of the game
I understand what you're saying and we do need more. I'm not a face template collector so there are probably a lot more that I don't know about, it's a niche area of CC creating so it's hard to find people who do it. But here's some links for anyone who's looking for more variety
I agree with @creesims recs! I also think these by Pooklet are quite unique. Deedee has made them non default so you can have them together with Maxis' if you like, it adds variety if you let your game spawn townies, NPCs, etc. I agree that some sets out there are a bit same face-y, but no one's forcing you to download them 🤷🏾♀️
CC creators may not work for us, however they are creating for a diverse community. That should be reflected in the face templates.
Actually my point exactly was that many CC creators (including my(retired)self) are not creating for the community at all but for themselves. They are generously sharing a set of face templates they've probably made for their own game. You can of course dislike their CC, but you can't tell them what kind of CC they should be making instead.
also, are you guys aware that you can combine face templates from different sets? you do not have to use a full set by anyone.
i get the point that was being made here but at the same time literally every single person's game has same face syndrome to some extent. mixing and matching templates from different people is going to curb that.
yes, it's annoying having to pick and choose instead of just sticking a whole set in there and calling it a day but i feel like if you're going to criticize others for being too lazy to MAKE different faces, you can also be criticized for being too lazy to choose different faces (which arguably is easier and less time consuming that making them from scratch)
I get what you're saying, but I think the core point is the most important part of the initial posts. Like yes, of course CC makers can make whatever content they want, and that doesn't have to be inclusive content. Anyone downloading CC can get modular with how they use it, and that does create a more dynamic experience. However, I don't think that addresses the frustration about how the face template situation feels like an extension of racism that has been part of The Sims experience. The Sims franchise base games have ALWAYS catered toward white people so they've never had to ask for that same inclusion from CC (and if they did they would absolutely have it at least with regard to race. Not body type, and certainly not gender.). So when people are creating content continuously and still not being inclusive (or doing about as much as inclusion as EA did in 2002) that can feel really disappointing. I think this is so frustrating to me specifically because, tonally, it reads like CC operates the same way for everyone and it just doesn't. Playing the game as a POC always requires seven extra hoops to jump through, whether it's that you can't use most of the portraits in game for Black households cause they just weren't included in the base game, or it's wanting more than 10 hairstyles TS2 actually made that reflects our hair type. That dependency on cc isn't just the privilege of wanting a certain aesthetic. It's the desire to have even a similar amount of content that white simmers had when they bought the game twenty years ago. Even in the cc downloading space there's always some extra added weirdness. Just a few years ago people were begging cc creators to use brown/black sims on the occasion that they decided to make afro textured hair or braids. We still can't get away from the slave/master language in CC. The uglacies and the beautifying legacy challenges were blatantly featurist against the few POC-coded face templates that existed in the game. And when we talk about it, even when there are helpful suggestions in the comment, people can treat that desire for equality like entitlement. I get that you're saying 'do the work to make it the game that you want,' but I just feel like that skips over systemic issues and points the finger at the individual instead. Back to the templates: I also suggest Pooklet's Templates! Shoukeir has some I like as well. I also really enjoy Microscotch's face templates these days as they feel really different from each other.
Literally every default face template set on earth that I've ever seen be like: what if every single sim looked the exact same as each other. and also they're all white
Can't have Asian features or Black features or Indigenous features because they're too #ugly and the Sims 2 community memes on it constantly about how #gross and #ugly they are and how that's why we need defaults that are just 25 clones of the same white guy with a button nose and round eyes. Oh and elf and alien I guess. I GUESS.
"but what if i want my sims to look UNIQUE instead of looking like Maxis face template sim #3874358" you know you can make unique looking sims with the maxis templates right. you know you can just Do that, right. it's not hard. for fuck's sake.
also bold take but i don't think 28 templates with the same vague shape of fucking button noses and round eyes are "unique"
Isbrealiomcaife's All Around the World face templates have been around for over 20 years. 8 years ago @ivy-sims uploaded custom versions of the default faces in the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese installs of the game
I understand what you're saying and we do need more. I'm not a face template collector so there are probably a lot more that I don't know about, it's a niche area of CC creating so it's hard to find people who do it. But here's some links for anyone who's looking for more variety
I agree with @creesims recs! I also think these by Pooklet are quite unique. Deedee has made them non default so you can have them together with Maxis' if you like, it adds variety if you let your game spawn townies, NPCs, etc. I agree that some sets out there are a bit same face-y, but no one's forcing you to download them 🤷🏾♀️
CC creators may not work for us, however they are creating for a diverse community. That should be reflected in the face templates.
Actually my point exactly was that many CC creators (including my(retired)self) are not creating for the community at all but for themselves. They are generously sharing a set of face templates they've probably made for their own game. You can of course dislike their CC, but you can't tell them what kind of CC they should be making instead.
also, are you guys aware that you can combine face templates from different sets? you do not have to use a full set by anyone.
i get the point that was being made here but at the same time literally every single person's game has same face syndrome to some extent. mixing and matching templates from different people is going to curb that.
yes, it's annoying having to pick and choose instead of just sticking a whole set in there and calling it a day but i feel like if you're going to criticize others for being too lazy to MAKE different faces, you can also be criticized for being too lazy to choose different faces (which arguably is easier and less time consuming that making them from scratch)
Also, instead of being bitchy about the existing templates, how about you make your own? People make these usually for themselfs and love to share them, which we are really greatful for. Just a bit of google can lead you to some really nice templates aswell.
Why do you guys always default to this when POC point out racist trends in the fandom? "Make your own stuff", "Just download from someone else", "I'm making this for myself"? The point of this discussion is not to demand people change their gameplay style, it's to make people ask why exactly do they play like this. Why their "ideal face templates" exclude any ethnic features. Why this is such a common trend in the fandom. This is a pattern of behavior people have been noticing for twenty years now. Your preferences do not exist in a vacuum separate from society.
every day he comes closer to being a butch lesbian
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I'm practicing drawing kisses. The reference seemed right for them.
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My back itches does anyone wanna scratch it
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Redraw of this meme with Juliette and Hermia just because!!! :D
rough thing. tried smth a lil different out. love these 2.
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tabitha and mercedes are so detached from tybalt and mercutio they're literally just ocs at this point (yuri yap incoming)
because the dynamic shifts so drastically when they're women. take mercedes for example, who i actually see as a lot more punk than mercutio. he's involved in the punk scene, sure: he jams out to green day and dons a leather vest with bella ciao written on the back (thx spell-bloom <3), but it's almost performative in a way. he's a troubled cis teen boy from a wealthy farming family, so he's inevitably going to be blind to a lot of things. and just look at his complete disinterest in politics in the game! i like to think his identification with punk culture started as rebellion against his dad when he was a younger teen, and it hasn't evolved that much since then. however i do think that as he gets older, he learns more about how the dire state of the world negatively affects animals and the environment (two areas he's canonically very interested in) and how intertwined politics is with everything, which motivates him to stand up and actually start fighting for change. do not get him starteddd on how the american bison was nearly driven extinct by the white man during the 19th century in attempt to subjugate native american population. okay that topic involves several areas of interest for him so you know he will yap for DAYS.
now, where mercutio only realized these things in his 20s and 30s, mercedes knew since like. age 12. in my au, she's the heiress of the montys instead of romeo/ramona, so enduring the crushing pressure of maturation by her family (and the world) allowed her to be more aware and empathetic towards the global situation—this type of knowledge is generally pretty inherent with being socialized as a girl, so it was inevitable that there'd be significant differences between the type of punk mercutio is and the type of punk his hypothetical genderbend would be. while with him i focused more on environmental awareness and its connection to politics, i think mercedes would have all of that plus a metric TON of feminism. i mean, it's hard to ignore how she's affected by misogyny every single day in every aspect of life, in ways both big and small. especiallyyy in the late 90s and early 2000s. i haven't even mentioned the elephant in the room: mercedes is a butch lesbian!! so growing up not only as a woman but as one that's gender nonconforming, being neurodivergent (adhd), being the inheritor of a popular italian restaurant business and therefore a token for the montys (who are already struggling by fault of being a sicilian family in northern italy), and so severely defying every expectation by being loud and vocal about the injustices of the world…she may still be rich, but my girl has it HARD.
and then there's ms. tabitha capp, or Princess as mercedes likes to call her. at first i created this nickname because Obviously. silly homoerotic pet name to tease a pretty femme. but it's since evolved into something with more depth—i feel there's an extra layer to tabcedes that tycutio doesn't have simply because of mercedes's political awareness. tabitha is essentially everything she stands against: capitalistic, unempathetic, traditional, obedient to the whims of her family and what the world demands of her. Blind. privilege follows her wherever she goes, and she doesn't dare question why. she merely nods along and allows herself to be the capps' puppet. in a way, she is a Princess, but the nickname isn't one purely of affection… more as a mockery. instead of defending her family's values through aggressive displays and the adoption of a guard dog role similar to tybalt, tabitha embodies those values with each strategic action she takes (that aren't truly hers). like mercedes, tabby is the heiress meaning her image is what the world will picture when they hear the word "capp". it's not her, but she takes care in maintaining the facade because it's all she has. and mercedes resents her for it—for her childhood betrayal, the heartbreak she caused her, and even worse: her cowardice. because she knows her, perhaps more than anyone else in veronaville, she's felt her fear—and she can see straight through tabitha's game of pretend. mercedes wants to truly hate her, she should hate her given their families' feud, but she can't just ignore her best friend that she knows is still inside somewhere.
maybe, by continuing to bother and throw sarcastic flirts her way, she'll be able to slowly bring that girl back and make her see… or maybe she's just postponing the inevitable realization that that girl is long gone. and yet, she can't help but feel magnetized to tabitha whenever she's nearby—not being able to shake the feeling that if she were to stop pestering her, she'd forget the importance mercedes used to have in her life and there'd be no chance of recovering what was once good.
thanx @vulpixels for some of the ideas here! ♥︎
getting fixated on something is funny because the first like week i have an insatiable need to tell everyone i know about it and spread the good word but by weeks 2 and 3 it becomes so intense and personal that even hearing it mentioned in public makes me sweat as if a dark secret was alluded to