simperer

Mickey Smith

2009-06-11T05:22:12Z

It's been a while, hasn't it? I blame uninstalling and reinstalling my game with Apartment Life, losing all my downloads, and school. I'm not sure how much more creating I'll do in the coming months, but I do enjoy it and I'll create when I can.

This guy has been sitting half-finished in my Sims bin for a couple months. Someone on Garden of Shadows requested him ages ago so I thought I'd try. He's Mickey Smith from the TV series Doctor Who. He's also called Ricky, Mickey the Idiot, and he sometimes refers to himself as the tin dog.

Everything you see is included. Don't be as harsh to him in your game as Rose and the Doctor were in the show, okay? ;)

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12 Poster Recolors and Striped Walls

2008-10-18T21:18:43Z

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Both use the "Surfing the Universe" poster from University so the University EP is required for these . Paper textures by bleeding-dragon and brushes by remittancegirl both at DeviantArt. Files are compressorized.

Download the Machinist | Download the Physician

Since I'm updating I might as well offer my overused striped wallpapers. I made them forever ago for a Sweeney Todd lot I never finished, hence all the blather about halcyon days in a tonsorial parlor. (Get the irony? Sweeney Todd lot? Halcyon? Oh I'm so clever.) Homecrafter hates me or I'd get rid of that ridiculous text.
They're the same walls in the Machinist previews and the Steampunkish outfits.

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As usual, do whatever you want with anything I make, just keep it free.

3 AM and 4 AF Outfits

2008-10-13T17:45:46Z

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Mesh (included) and bottom textures by Aikea Guinea. Shirt textures by Migamoo. Their names are in the tooltips since all I did was copy and paste textures.

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The mesh is a bit screwy. It has creases like the Maxis underwear mesh, and reverts to that mesh in the fat state. Also, the right pants seam is at an angle.
Mesh (included) and boot texture by Sound Beat, pants texture by Migamoo, shirt texture by Ninika.

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One of these days I'll learn how to handpaint my own textures or photoskin without looking over photoskinned. For now, I'm grateful to those creators who share their textures. Thanks guys!
The WNF aspiration set is Steampunk! Dammit, now I have to delete some stuff to make room for all of this goodness.

Wild Honey Pie - Three Skinny Jeans for AF

2008-10-05T00:40:49Z

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I snagged the textures from one of Migamoo's pants sets and slapped them on this mesh. Mesh is included, but check out the original thread to get the bright recolors. Mine are only untucked.

Files compressorized for your convenience. Unlike my other uploads, the filename says simperer instead of Troubadour because I don't think these are quite GoS material.

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The title ... I was listening to the Beatles.

AF Rock Shirts

2008-09-26T20:40:34Z

Two sets of eight untucked shirts for AF. Mesh by HystericalParoxysm isn't included, downlad it here. The original shirt is texture by fanseelamb. File names are labeled so you can delete what you don't want.

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The Springsteen shirt has the titles of Born in the USA songs on the back.

A House to a Home Challenge

2008-08-12T01:17:02Z

I had this on private for the longest time, but here it is in case anyone would like to see the house I made for simply_home's challenge.

The front (note my lack of landscaping skills)

... and the back.

Top down shot.

Immediately as we enter the house, this is what we see. A small kitchen in the back and the living area in front.

A closer look at the living area

To the left of the living area is a bookshelf, vintage-styled phone, mannequin, plantstand and clock.

Continuing down the long room is the dining area.

Here's the small kitchen.

A door by the kitchen leads to the guest bedroom. The nearly cut out brown strip on the right is a dresser.

Next to the guest bedroom is a bathroom.

On the other side of the bathroom is a messy study/work room.

Across the hall is the master bedroom. The ottoman functions as a living chair and the candles as a table lamp.

The master bathroom.

The back porch and pond.

Random functionality test shots

Custom Content
Build mode
Club Crimsyn, 4ESF, MsBarrows (TSR), Ghanima Atreides (GoS), Pooklet (GoS), pheonix_phaerie (MTS2), Brighten11 (?)

Objects/Recolors
Websites: Club Crimsyn, Elegant Decay recolors, Sims Design Avenue, Holy Simoly, 4ESF, Around the Sims 2, ogularama.com, blackpanther.de
TSR: Cashcraft, Cyclonesue, padre333
MTS2: Adele, buggybooz, blake_boy, pheonix_phaerie
GoS: Aviolina, Bosie, Yuxi

A few things didn't have the creator's name in the filename or object info so they couldn't be credited.

What is Wright - Episode One

2008-08-10T22:05:16Z

It's times like these I'm happy rarely anyone stumbles across my Sims corner of the internet.
Anyway, I feel so asinine posting this but I spent a lot of time on it. I might as well show it off. Maybe it will *gasp* amuse someone.
Please ignore historical inaccuracies, namely how Charlotte speaks.

And no, I couldn't think of a better title.

Good morning! You didn't have any trouble finding the place, did you? I know it can be such a hassle - the whole "over the mountain and through the woods" part can get tricky.
Anyway, my name is Charlotte Wright. Well, it used to be Charlotte Gardiner but now it's Wright. Mrs. John Wright. Right.
I should give you a little background information, shouldn't I?

After a short courtship Dr. John Wright and I were engaged. It was more of a marriage of convenience than attraction. John was quickly approaching thirty and since his first choice of a wife turned him down he asked me, his second choice. I said yes, of course, but I had my own reasons.

I was the last unmarried daughter in a family with five children so my mother's number one priority was marrying me off. Now her number one priority is grandchildren. Mothers.
But I had no other suitors and so many women my age were already married. Not only was my mother pressuring me to snap up the first man who showed an interest but I felt society was frowning at me.
Not that I regret marrying John. Oh no, I am sure there are many worse husbands and some better husbands.

John is a doctor in a small asylum on the outskirts of town - asylums have to be on the outskirts of town, the patients scream at night, you see. He's a good man, quiet and serious and proper nearly to a fault. He spends most of his time at the asylum doing God knows what to God knows who. I always wondered what kind of people ended up there. Where they rich old men driven mad with paranoia? Were they your old senile grandmothers who thought the sky was collapsing?

But I digress. I do that quite a lot. If I ever get too far off topic just say, "Charlotte -" Oh there I go again. Sorry.

John and I were married in April a few months after the engagement. It was a small wedding, but I was terribly embarrassed.  My veil fell in the mud on the way to the church but the wedding had to go on. My brothers still tease me about it.

Married life isn't much different than being single except you share a room with a man instead of your sisters.  When I have children it will change. I'm not looking forward to that so much. I mean I am but I'm not. I've barely been married six months and I've known my husband for what, a year and a half now? Two years? Not like that matters. So many other people have been married and had children a few months after meeting.
There I go again, getting off topic. Like I was saying, married life isn't much different than being single. I entertain guests more often - less to do in a house of two so I invite company over regularly.

I sew more often, too. It's less mending than living at home but John always gets his shirts so messy and sometimes there's a tear or one of the buttons fall off. He works in an asylum, how much physical activity does he do to ruin his shirts?
Apart from that, I sew for recreation. The first month we were married I completed a suit for a young woman. I hoped to create a career from my hobby but John said there was no need for it, his wages supported us quite well. I personally think he was threatened by the idea that I could get along without him.

I mean, a woman should be able to get along without a man, shouldn't she? Sometimes I don't know what to think ...
You have enough background information now, right? Good. Background information is such a bore - that's slang, I know.  John doesn't like me to use slang; he says it's too common.
Anyway, let's start with what you came to hear.

The first time I went to the asylum was sometime in March - I remember that because it was still cold and I had to put on my coat. John and I were engaged then and I decided to stop by and say hello. It was around lunchtime. I figured the patients would be eating so the doctors wouldn't be busy.
I should mention the asylum wasn't very large. From what I saw of the second floor there were five rooms for the patients (the doors had glass in the front and you could see the padded walls inside). I don't know how many patients were in each room - two, maybe? From what I could see there was no third floor but maybe there were some rooms in the basement.

Upon entering, a green-suited man greeted me and took my coat. His name was Dr. Edwards and he explained he had just been on his way upstairs when he saw me coming in.
"May I help you, madam?"
"Yes, I'm looking for Dr. Wright, sir. If you could tell me where ..."
His voice and mannerisms were polite but I could tell I had interrupted him.
"Yes, yes, I will tell him you are here. Is he expecting you?"
"No I just stopped by."

Dr. Edwards led me to the sitting area.
"Who should I say is calling?" he asked.
"Miss Gardiner, thank you."
So I waited. And waited. And waited. Twenty minutes passed and I grew tired of waiting. I hadn't seen anyone since Dr. Edwards left so I decided to look around.

I should mind my own business more. I really should. There was a small building in the back that caught my interest. It didn't occur to me that there might be people in it, people who would not appreciate a nosy woman poking around, but I was lucky and it was empty. Dr. Edwards took my coat so I hurried through the cold.

It looked like an operating or experimenting or medical room. There was a steel table in the center with bottles and test tubes and books and jars piled on the counters. It was an absolute mess - blood and rust stains everywhere. It looked like something out of a horror novel.

What left the biggest impression on me was the smell. It smelled like, oh I hate to say it! But it smelled like a rotting a corpse. It was difficult to breathe in there; the windows hadn't been opened in ages. I left quickly and returned to the main building.
I was anxious about the state of the room - what were they doing in there? No normally functioning asylum today should look like that!

Again, what I saw of the first floor was deserted. I doubted Dr. Edwards had come back for me so I continued exploring. Upstairs.

It was utterly desolate upstairs. The wallpaper was worn and yellowed, the curtains stained and dusty. A man in a blue suit, another doctor I suppose, was outside of one of the five windowed doors. He didn't notice me, I guess, because he entered the room shortly after I saw him.

In front of me was a short hallway with the last door open. This is when reason should have kicked in - go back downstairs and wait for John. There's no way I would do this, though. By now you should know what a pry I am. And to top it off I heard John's voice. I approached the open door quietly.

"Where did you say you went?" John asked threateningly.
"Blppfffff...."
"Where is he? You met him, didn't you?"
"Plbtttt....."
Who was he talking to? Who was he talking about? I had to find out.

"Where is he?"
"Uh...."

The floor creaked. The floor had to creak. A creaking floor is a staple in such settings. John spun around, shocked. He slammed the patient's door shut and pulled me out of the short hall.

"Charlotte, what are you doing here?"
"I came here to see you. I thought it would be a nice surprise."
"Nice? You thought it would be nice to visit me here?" He calmed down slightly. "Why are you upstairs? Who told you to come up here?"
"No one told me to come up here," I replied, more irritated at his tone than his words.
"What did you hear?"

"What does it matter what I heard?" I snapped. "If it's so secretive you should shut the door. Anyone can wander in with the kind of security this place has."
"Charlotte..." he said through gritted teeth. "I'll see you at home."

After that, John led me downstairs and made sure I took a cab home. That was my first experience at the asylum. I didn't go again until a month later and that time I was invited.

Notes
- Charlotte's lack of veil is attributed to Pronup Sims's screwy mesh and my zero motivation to go download another one.
- I have no idea what old asylums looked like so I used my imagination and awesome decrepit Victorian CC.
- After I made John and Charlotte argue, they made out. Go figure.
- The blue suited doctor is actually the patient with a makeover.
- You win at life if you catch what phrase I stole from Dracula. And by "win at life" I mean totally PWN at life.

Charlotte is an edited version of PeachT's beautiful Genevieve at GoS.
The asylum is a renovated version of a house by Christine at CC4Sims.

On the off-chance someone found this and read all of it, constructive criticism is welcome, but please be nice about it. This is my first sims story.

The Engineer - 5 Poster Recolors

2008-07-15T20:29:30Z

Also good for your inventors, machinists and automaton builders.

Mesh by Aikea Guinea included.
Machine brushes by necrosensual-art and paper textures by bleeding-dragon both at Deviant Art.

File numbers do not correspond to the pictures, like the top left poster isn't necessarily Troubadour_EngineerPoster1.

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Steampunkish clothes

2008-07-10T01:01:34Z

Inspired by serendipityhq 's awesome Age of Steam Sims project I decided to make my own Steampunk(ish) recolors.

Female outfit uses textures by HystericalParoxysm at ModtheSims2 (skirt), aikea_guinea at ClubCrimsyn (back of vest) and Nouk (boots). The mesh by Nouk is included.
Male outfit uses textures by aikea_guinea at ClubCimsyn (boots, shirt, back of vest and edited pants). The mesh by aikea_guinea is included.

Download Adult Female | Download Adult Male

Do whatever you want with my textures. Use them to make your own, edit them, use them unchanged, whatever. Credit is nice but I don't really care - they're just photoskinned after all. Just keep the outfits off the Exchange and paysites please.
The models are John Seward and Lucy Westenra by the way. Dracula for the win!

Victorian Cottage

2008-07-07T20:07:06Z

I saw a cute Victorian cottage here at Victoriana.com and wanted to duplicate it. Although my model is much more spartan and, of course, had to be adjusted for the game, I like how it turned out. Most of the houses I build are bland Victorians as they're the houses I've lived in and they're the houses I love :P

Back | First | Second
Sorry the back view is overexposed and the front view is dark. I've yet to get the hang of Sims lighting.

Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 1.5
Lot size: 3x3
Price: 22,186

I put a shower and a toilet in the upstairs bath; my sims never wash their hands anyway. The large room to the right can be used as a master bedroom or a study. It's been thoroughly playtested and the only problem I had was toddlers passing out on the upstairs landing and clogging the traffic. The landing can be enlarged easily, but I liked having a huge bedroom.

If you delete the plants and strip the walls you can probably get it down to a starter home. After using it for nearly an adult life stage (however many sim days that is) the price went down to around 18,300.

It comes unfurnished with only one piece of custom content: the wood floors by Holy Simoly. I have all EPs up to Freetime except Bon Voyage and no stuff packs. Whether or not they are all necessary is beyond me.

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simperer @ 2008-07-01T19:38:00

2008-07-01T23:39:44Z

Hello! This is the first house I've decided to upload. I'm not one for intros so the information and pictures are beneath the cut.

Everyday Victorian - something you would find in a rural neighborhood, dull outside but nice inside :)

First floor | Second floor | Basement

Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 2.5
Lot size: 3x5
Price: 31, 973

It comes unfurnished with no custom content. There are two staircases connecting the first and second floors, one in the front and one in the back by the kitchen. The back staircase can easily removed for a bigger kitchen. Plenty of room for a garage, greenhouse, or building backwards if it's not big enough.

I have all EPs up to Free Time except Bon Voyage, no stuff packs. Whether or not you need them all is beyond me.

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Let me know what you think!

Custom Content

2008-07-01T04:42:16Z

This is mostly in case I lose my downloads folder, even though I back it up regularly.

Defaults
SironaSims Dermalicious Skintones
Yumedust Eyelove Eyes
Rensim Eyebrows
A combination of Naitali, Selzi, Terrakosmos and Katuchan's face templates
HystericalParoxysm Bedding
HystericalParoxysm Maternity Clothes

Hair
Adele
Helga
Nouk
Peggy
Raon
Rose
I sometimes use retextures and edits from Garden of Shadows, Rissa, and Selzi.

Clothes
Adele
All About Style (Victorian)
ClubCrimsyn
Helaene
MTS2
- Bruno
- Migamoo
- Fanseelamb
- HystericalParoxysm
- iamliz13 (Regency)

Objects
Adele (MTS2, WickedNouk Aspiration Rewards)
Elegant Decay
Sims2Play
Sim Design Ave
TSR
- Cashcraft
- Cyclonesue
- MsBarrows
Random items and recolors Garden of Shadows, especially stuff listed in the Junk and Clutter thread.

Is it a pay item? Check the Booty.