POLICY
I'm a pretty flexible person when it comes to "fair use" of things put on the internet. Seeing as most of what I do is merely slapping a dash of brightly colored paint on things others have made or grunging them up and down, all I ask is that you don't claim anything you download here as your own. Paysites are bad and the Exchange has cooties. Wipe your nose. Take a sweater. Don't run with scissors. Your face is going to stick like that. If you've made something from something I've made, I'd like to see it!

INFORMATION
Add me, I'll add you back. Most entries will be public though, so if you feel like lurkin', go right ahead. General ramblings, rants, and musings will be friends only. I have all SPs and all EPs. WCIFs and the like are always always okay with me, don't be shy. I also always appreciate comments, even a brief "thanks" means a ton. If you need to contact me privately for whatever reason, leave a comment here. All comments are screened and automatically e-mailed to me. Anonymous comments are allowed. I'm about as scary and tough and mean as an angry asthmatic kitten. I don't take requests, but I do take suggestions.
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I generally like to have my neighborhood and whatever current set of CC I'm using at the time have a "theme" or "motif". As of 08 October 2008 I'm in a generally Maxis matchish mood with a splash of grunge and a shot of neon color. I have around 1.4 GB of downloads, over 12,000 files and roughly 1,600 subfolders. For any and all pay items, I use the Booty. For Korean DAUM/Naver stuff I use DMBD. Collected stuff from the Sims 2 store is here. I use Fraps to take take my screenshots and Adobe Photoshop CS3 to edit them. If you have any questions or corrections or additions, feel free to leave a comment.


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Hi.

SOOOOOO.

At first it was the crappy router, and then it was the subzero temperatures (the "computer room" doesn't have proper insulation or heating), and then it was just apathy. And part of it is neurotic fiddle-faddle which you do not care to hear but which leads me to avoid the internet. I'm not a social person and I like to run away and I often have so many ideas for amazing things I'd love to do but can hardly be arsed to follow through on because of some crazy personality flaw I can't quite pinpoint.

I was barely playing the game to begin with and I haven't even booted up the damn thing at all since the new year. I don't have the urge to do anything sims related really, though shiny pictures from the people I admire do leave me feeling rather wistful. I even managed to nab up a bunch of webspace and was going to go about making a real website, but that ambition quickly fizzled. I'll try to find (or cobble together) a single website to put up all the stuff I've made, so it's easier to peruse through than livejournal. Suggestions are welcome, website-building related or otherwise. MTS2 is not an option, no.

This is a rather wishy-washy apology for being so absent, but I am sorry. If you have a WCIF that I have not yet responded to, ask here. If you have any questions, ask here. If you sent me some message on some website and it is MOST DIRE that I read it, remind me here. If you decide you don't want to be LJ buds anymore, it's okay. If you want to be RL LJ buddies, ask here, but there are no guarantees as Phobia =/= Me in real life and I won't talk about Sims 2 things and hardly ever update but it will probably be the only real way I'll keep up with anyone's shenanigans. Long sentences.

If I see you soon, then yay! If I don't, then I enjoyed getting to know everyone I got to know. :)

TL;DR VERSION: I won't be around. I may come back, make some CC again, I may not. Who knows. Leave a message if you need to.

Most awkward flounce ever. So here are Ripp!tears from ages ago. Bye bye be good.

Yay Christmas! So I participated in the GoS Secret Santa exchange and it was a lot of fun. Lots of people received many wonderful presents which I am coveting from afar, hands clasped in pained envy. The present I made was for simperfect. My present from Steerpike/rage_rage was one of the really sweet Asian Fusion outfits from the Sims 2 store with boots, as boots make everything better. Everything. I have retexturing plans, oh yes (can there be retexturing plans, Anna?). So I decided to take a few minutes to boot up my game in the midst of waiting for cakes to cool and snap some screenshots. One sim is Pepper Tremaine's uh... granddaughter or daughter, I can't quite remember anymore and the extremely cute alien is xel_squirgle_ox's Amy who is the daughter of her Bunker and my Fritz. rage_rage is going to be sharing the outfit over on GoS maybeprobablyIsuspect because that's the righteous thing to do, man.







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Things that are awesome right now:

simgaroop's Advent Calender. Seriously. GO LOOK. She's retextured and recolored tons of my favorite hair meshes. I'm swimming in a sea of delight, it makes me feel all tingly.

AweSims has really really excellent recolors (quite a few of them of Maxis meshes) and some wonderful wallpaper and floors. Some LJ people might not have come across this site yet, so I encourage you to check it out.

sixtylilies makes an assortment of lovely things on her livejournal including enticing Nouked hair retextures, clothing, and sweet recolors. Please go harass her with affection, for she is most deserving.

smjoshsims put Easy/Lucky/Free on the Maxis sclera which is so many flavors of fantastic. Sim animations are so wacky and gappy black bits of doom are not so wacky. Be sure to grab the contacts by showercapfrog too, if you're interested, they're at the bottom of the entry.

I have my own proper webhosting now which means sometime soon I won't have to rely on Photobucket for image hosting and box.net and mediafire for file hosting. Huzzah! Now to teach myself Dreamweaver.

Things that are not so awesome:

My router is on its last flailing arthritic limb which means my connection to the internet is sporadic at best. I usually can't stay on for more than 15 minutes at a time. I don't quite know when the situation will right itself but hopefully soon.

I'm still busy in real life and facing the arrival of my annual bout of the doldrums which strike me every January through late February. Combined with the fritzy router means I spend most of my free time elbow deep in flour, yarn, paint, or idling about in Animal Crossing: City Folk. Be well and hope you all have a happy holiday!

PS - All complaints about my pseudo e-popularity can be directed to katu or expressed in some delightfully rendered simsecret featuring my metaphorical head on a pike and the words "GTFO" flashing in spasm-inducing neon red and yellow. Be sure to include the phrase "FUCK N99!!!!" for consistency's sake.

I'm going to be out of town from today until Monday, December 1st. This means I probably won't be responding to comments, e-mails, or PMs as I won't have regular (if any) internet access. It also means I'm going to have to catch up on my commenting when I get back, so I apologize in advance if I overlook anyone's Super Awesome Entry Of Awesomeness. Please don't kick me. See you next week!

Well, I did say Tuesday and here it is, two minutes past midnight. Once again, here are 30 recolors of Sarhra's eyes, 21 "normal" eyes and 9 fantasy-esque eyes. Just like last time, there's a regular custom set, a geneticized townie-friendly set (wherein darker colors are dominant and lighter colors are recessive), and different defaults for you to pick and choose. If you're looking for defaults of the original set, check these out by engram_au. If you're looking for defaults and other recolors check out this set by inkbottleblue. If you want my first set of recolors, here's Easy/Lucky/Free Part One with supernatural defaults here. If you want my recolors with a different, more animation-friendly sclera, check out these edits by without_pith.

I've included alien defaults, genie defaults for you to sort through, bigfoot defaults for you to sort through, a new Maxis vampire default, a vampire default using Mouseyblue's Polyster Bride skintone as was requested, AND a set of contacts for ALL the recolors I've done, 60 in total. You can only have one set of defaults at a time and only one default of any given color. This means one light blue, one dark blue, one green, one vampire, one bigfoot, etc. The normal eye colors are named after Bright Eyes songs and the alien eyes are named after Conor Oberst songs. Everything is compressorized for your convenience, previews are included, and all files are clearly labeled. There are so so many pictures ahead, I should be ashamed. Except I'm not. Thank you Sarhra for making some pretty sweet eyes and changing your policy, Mouseyblue for making a pretty sweet skintone and letting me massacre it, and everyone who gave me input on these recolors. You guys rock my socks.


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Today was "Phobia's Body Hates Her Day" seeing as I had a splitting eyeache, a stomachache, had no sleep, and developed a very unpretty allergic reaction to the cleaning products I used to clean MOUSE POO from my oven. Today was bollocks. Anyway, ha ha neon hair ha ha! The meshes are not included, previews are included, files are compressorized. Nouk hairs work for all ages and the Seomi hair works for child to elder. If you're looking for the natural retextures AND meshes, take your fine fine self over to Quit The Forest Part One (Nouk's Side Braid), Rough Trade Part One (Seomi's Wind Hair), and Cherry Cola Part One (Nouk's Rockabilly Hair). Isn't this just the best picture of Marx ever? Ever! And now I sleep and dream of bleach burns and hypnotizing washing machines.


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Someone requested paler recolors of Kiki's PhasMaxian skintones and OH HEY I already did that but never released it as it was kind of a sloppy job on my part. I also just installed Mansions & Gardens and I don't have a custom camera, lighting, or any hacks (pose or otherwise) so enjoy these incredibly mediocre and very minimally edited preview pictures. All sims are wearing zero makeup aside from eyelashes (more evidence as to how much I rely on the stuff) and there's a geneticized+townified set and a custom set available for download. The handsome swarthy fellow with the black underoos is Keely's Buster. Pale 01 is from the swatch I was provided and Pale 02 is the original pale recolor I made for myself. The Very Dark skintone taught me exactly why no one ever makes really dark skintones. These are like just Kiki's originals--all Barbie (I can't be arsed to care about nipples), Maxis bodies, and edited faces with a bit of Louis/Simcribbling. An enormous, huge, tremendous, gargantuan, elephantine, rubenesque thank you to Kiki for letting me share these recolors. Please check out the originals at Phasmatic Sims! And now it is 7:00 in the morning and I am going to bed.


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Someday I'll try to do clothing again. Anyway, Corinne (who is also lipmusic) is all kinds of sweet asked Kielen to extract the Seasons Rockstar mesh that I used to make Smart Went Crazy so that now you can have the outfits even if all you have is the basegame! She was kind enough to even recolor her mesh with my recolors, so if you always wanted those outfits but didn't have Seasons or Apartment Life, follow the previous link to download them, or if you're feeling especially lazy download them here. Thank you Corinne and Kielen for being amazing!

For those of you who were wondering, I plan on releasing Easy/Lucky/Free Part Two before Wednesday of next week. It will include 21 new "normal" eye recolors including 3 defaults of each color, 9 alien eyes, alien defaults, bigfoot defaults, genie defaults, two new vampire defaults (one Maxis and one featuring one of Mouseyblue's skintones), and a set of contacts for all 60 recolors. strange_tomato, this is the blue I came up with which looks strangely light in that picture, but I assure you it isn't. If it isn't right then at some point after I come back I'll make something 'specially for you. I'll stop spamming your friends pages now! For no reason at all, here is Archie (wearing Keely's SO's clothes, gasp!):

Fritz is the offspring of LL30's Harper Bradley and one of my sims, Deirdre Strange. Originally she started out as a boy, but I never make things for boys, so she mostly lives in my game as a girl. Fritz is delightfully androgynous (at least in thought and deed), wants to become a Space Pirate by any means necessary, spends an inordinate amount of time using the telescope, and enjoys listening to New Wave music and dyeing her hair. She comes packaged with Maxis hair and clothes, though if you want the hair she has here, check out Aelia's recolors of Yuxi's Maxis M2F Seasons Caesar conversion. I also usually have her in a paler recolor of Kiki's PhasMaxian S1 that I made for personal use but she comes linked to whatever S1 default you've got as well as with her default alien eyes as when she was "born". She breeds really well and looks excellent as a boy, as seen here, here, and here. Do whatever you like with her, turn her back into Boy!Fritz (who has terrible fashion sense, by the way), age her down, make her a zombie, whatever, just don't claim her as your own, or upload her anywhere. Big thank yous to Keely for Harper Bradley and ChihoSan for making him one of my Pollination Technicians. More pictures of Fritz are scattered throughout the LJ of course.


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I've mostly finished everything that's going to be uploaded before the trip. Fritz should be up sometime later tonight (as a guy or a girl, which do you prefer?), after I make some chili and clean a little bit. I never thought I'd be one of those people who's crazy busy during the holiday season but I am. Here's a retexture of XMSims 87, with textures by chokelate and alpha-edit by Earthdragon at MTS2 because I really dig those wacky asymmetrical bangs. Mesh is included in the set of naturals but not in the neons, previews are included, naturals are family-binned and linked with elder grey in the black recolor file, and all files are compressorized. I'm trying to remember exactly who I'm supposed to be responding to and about what, so I'm sorry if my replies are extremely delayed and/or scattered over the next week. I have about 4 dozen empanadas to prepare, tons of previews to make, a couple more recolors to do, an entire house to clean, new winter wear to buy, and a test to take all before Tuesday so I'm losing my mind.


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Charlie! Chahlie. You ever watch All Dogs Go To Heaven? Best pronunciations of Charlie ever. Charlie is an optimistic sort of gal, prone to watching the cooking channel at all hours of the day, culinary delights and disasters, and puttering around in her garden. In my game, she's a airquotes plantsim /airquotes, a vegetarian (slash cannibal?), and doesn't smustle but dances solo. She comes packaged with Maxis clothing and hair. Buyer beware, her eyes are geneticized and townified, so be sure to install her using CleanInstaller. If you want the hairstyle she sports in my game, check out Miki's great Juice retexture. She looks awesome as a guy, as seen here, here, and here. She breeds pretty well and makes especially handsome looking boys, though good luck trying to breed out that nose and that chin. That's what I love about Charlie. Very normal looking head on but she's got that crazy chin and that strong nose with a slight bump in the middle. More pictures of her are scattered throughout my LJ. Do what you like with her just don't claim her as your own or upload her anywhere. I'd cry.


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Here's the first batch of neons I promised. I realize not everyone has a use for neon hair, but for those of you who have rainbow legacies or maybe just want that one particular hairstyle in hot pink, these might be useful. The meshes are not included, previews are included, files are compressorized. Helga 96 works for teen to elder, Raon 37 and 59 work for all ages. If you're looking for the natural retextures AND meshes, they are Junebug Part One (Helga 096), Come And Gone Part One (Raon 037), and Shake It Out Part One (Raon 059). Lemme know if there are any problems.


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Depending on the mesh and the resolution of the textures, Neena's textures can look really really smooth and silky, which is what happened here. So even if you may not care for Maxis match hair per say, you might still like this. I retextured Nouk's Side Braid with chokelate's textures, obviously, because the original was too shiny for my tastes even when I did have nothing but Nouked hair in my game. I also alpha-edited the extra long strands near the front because those sorts of things bother me unduly. Mesh and preview are included, works for all ages, files are compressorized, family-binned, and linked, elder grey is in the black recolor file. Thank you to Nouk for making a fantastic ~*~free~*~ hairstyle and Neena for her textures. I will catch up with comments and what not over the next couple of days. The immediate stuff on my plate is uploading Charlie and Fritz, that batch of neon hair recolors I've been promising forever, and finishing Easy/Lucky/Free Part 2. After that I'll be taking a much needed vacation. Feel free to hang me for using Decorgal's ubiquitous pose box, but I'm tired and sneezy.


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Welp, chiho924 asked me to take a stab at retexturing this Peggy hair. I quite like the hairstyle, but I had to remove the child and toddler ages because frankly they look terrible. Unrealistic for toddlers and the mesh sits incredibly high on girl's heads. Also, the teen mesh is gappy as hell, but I included it just in case any of you are sitting on a fixed mesh because aside from the gaps it'd be all right. I retextured the hair clips too, some of them using textures from Squidfingers. Hair textures are by chokelate as per usual because why fix what ain't broken? I also alpha-edited the hair so that it isn't so stringy and removed the weird tufts from the forehead. Mesh and preview are included, files are compressorized, family-binned, and linked. Unnecessary ages are removed and the elder grey is linked to the black recolor file. Enjoy enjoy enjoy.


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I canceled the automatic payments on my LJ account because LJ is full of fecal matter. I'll probably have to change my layout (again) and all my icons once it expires because visual OCD is terrible. Does anyone actually use the tags? Just asking as I've been having a time trying to find sidebar-friendly CSS that I actually like. I do have a wordpress blog which I originally meant to be a little more sparse and more visually oriented as opposed to here where I have the tendency to ramble unnecessarily. The only deal is that Wordpress isn't very social. But then again, I'm not very social!

Below are previews of some of the Sarhra recolors I've done so far; twenty in total with at least two new defaults for brown (including a warmer dark brown based on "Tereza And Thomas"), green (including a darker deeper green based on "Arienette"), grey, light blue, and dark blue, new vampire-red eyes, and five alienish fantasy eyes because people asked for them and I thought they might be interesting.

I might do a few more, I'm not sure. The inherent nature of Sarhra's eyes makes them hard to fiddle with without making them a) into something that is completely different and unlike Sarhra's eyes at all and b) muddy. They're also not high-res which is limiting. Excuses, excuses. Sorry, I stayed up till five this morning in some sort of mad fit recoloring eyes because sleep is an unkind mistress and now I'm a Grumpy Gus.


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Work, work, work, wok. Wakka wakka. Everyone still got a buzz from last night despite California utterly cocking up the collective good mood of our otherwise despairingly cynical nation? Good! I've been tackling a few more retextures and stockpiling a somewhat disconcerting list of things to neonize. I realize not everyone actually uses neon hair all the bloody time, but frankly I do, plus rainbow legacies are good fun. So eventually that will happen in a big fat post which will break the minds of those of you on dial-up because I refuse to use any image format besides .png and won't apologize for it.


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Somebody requested a retexture of this XMSims hairstyle on GoS awhile back so naturally I ignored what everyone else wanted (Nouk!) and did what I wanted (Neena!). XMSims 70 for men, retextured with chokelate's textures. Works for all ages except elder (sorry elders), mesh and preview are included, files are compressorized, and everything's family-binned all nice and tidy. I realize including the mesh is against XMSims policy but fuck it. I alpha-edited the back so that it wouldn't be so long (it was cutting into a lot of collars) and the bangs a bit. The house in the previews is by An_na. I've been somewhat preoccupied so I apologize for a lack of commenting on my part. This month and the next are going to be hectic as hell.


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This is one of the first hairstyles I retextured, so I'm sorry if it's a bit rough. Seomi's "Wind" hairstyle for men, the alpha edit being based on the one by Wycked at MTS2. I changed the front bangs and side pieces quite a bit, but left the back much the same. The mesh and a preview are included, files are compressorized, files are family-binned and linked, unnecessary ages are removed, elder grey is in the black recolor file, and it works for child to elder. As a warning though, for some reason my recolor files for this mesh are pretty big. I have no idea why. An enormous thank you to aikea_guinea for fixing the gaps in the original mesh! Also a thank you to chokelate as usual for her textures and Wycked for the shaved scalp texture.


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