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🎄 Holiday Greetings Through the Years 🎄
Looking back on some old favourites. ❤️
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Holiday Love Meme 2023
The sims community Holiday Love Meme is back for another year! Please join us and sign up, spread the word, and spread the love to your fellow simmers. ♥ Let your friends and followers know you’ve signed up so they can send love and join in, too. This is especially true for any ts3 and ts4 simmers that join in (all are welcome!), as this meme tends to be primarily in the ts2 community–it started there on LiveJournal in 2009 (that's 14 years of holiday love)!
Thank you so much to ch4rmsing for offering to create this lovely banner for us. :)
Thank you to everyone for participating so far! There has been quite a bit of activity lately, and there's still time to share the love if you haven't already. ❤️
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If you have the means to donate gifts to toy drives or shelters, please keep the above tips in mind so you can help meet people’s wants and needs! 💓
If you’re in the US, Five Below is a GREAT place to get this kind of stuff for cheap, especially art supplies.
Holy shit. That didn’t even occur to me, and I have a Five Below mere minutes away. My students love the stuff there so hopefully the kids receiving my donations will, too, after I go tear thru the store tomorrow! 😃 I got a bunch of great stuff at Target this morning based on the recommendations, like a baby doll of color, kinetic sand and slime-making kits, and watercolor sets. It put me at ease having some kinda guide to help me narrow down my options cuz those aisles can be overwhelming.
Seeing this post spread so rapidly over the past 24 hours has genuinely warmed my heart and makes me hopeful that so many babies, kids, and teens will receive great presents this year. I’m so proud and thankful to anyone who gives if they can and also wanna send major thanks if you reblog even if you can’t donate this year cuz you could be inspiring others who are in a more fortunate financial position! 💓
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Unposted secret from November 16th, 2023.
lol what
The rumours of your death have been greatly exaggerated.
strangetomato reblogged
Holiday Love Meme 2023
The sims community Holiday Love Meme is back for another year! Please join us and sign up, spread the word, and spread the love to your fellow simmers. ♥ Let your friends and followers know you’ve signed up so they can send love and join in, too. This is especially true for any ts3 and ts4 simmers that join in (all are welcome!), as this meme tends to be primarily in the ts2 community–it started there on LiveJournal in 2009 (that's 14 years of holiday love)!
Thank you so much to ch4rmsing for offering to create this lovely banner for us. :)
strangetomato reblogged
Holiday Love Meme 2023
The sims community Holiday Love Meme is back for another year! Please join us and sign up, spread the word, and spread the love to your fellow simmers. ♥ Let your friends and followers know you’ve signed up so they can send love and join in, too. This is especially true for any ts3 and ts4 simmers that join in (all are welcome!), as this meme tends to be primarily in the ts2 community–it started there on LiveJournal in 2009 (that's 14 years of holiday love)!
Thank you so much to ch4rmsing for offering to create this lovely banner for us. :)
Holiday Love Meme 2023
The sims community Holiday Love Meme is back for another year! Please join us and sign up, spread the word, and spread the love to your fellow simmers. ♥ Let your friends and followers know you’ve signed up so they can send love and join in, too. This is especially true for any ts3 and ts4 simmers that join in (all are welcome!), as this meme tends to be primarily in the ts2 community–it started there on LiveJournal in 2009 (that's 14 years of holiday love)!
Thank you so much to ch4rmsing for offering to create this lovely banner for us. :)
Hey, so I guess I may have fumbled the holiday love meme this year. It was bound to happen eventually, as I haven't been active on here.
That said, if someone wants to make a banner for it, I could certainly put the post together.
I hope you are all doing well. :)
Hey everyone, I dropped in recently and answered an ask, so I thought I'd swing by again and catch up a bit. This has been a challenging year for me, and tiring, but not a bad one overall. Summer has arrived, so I'm officially off duty as homeschooling parent for a few months. I still have paid employment, which gets busier in the summer, but in context it feels like a break. Homeschooling is not something I ever expected to do, and there's surprisingly little of myself left over after it. Even so, we did it, we made it, and I'll do it again next year. Now more than ever, I see just how much I can and will do for my children.
Hey, I was trying to Google and it sent me to you. So I have a polly couple in the sims 2 of 4 sims who are all in love and live together. I have set there "the one" to none but it seems like they still reject each other for no reason. Do you know why this is or how I can sort it, I hate seeing them reject one another when they should all be in love! Thank you
I've had this problem myself, and I've posted about it in my "sims 2 polyamory" tab. The main things I can recall (keeping in mind that memory is one of my neurodivergent weak points) was to make sure all settings are set to "static" once you've set them. I would also occasionally experience random changes similar to what you've described here, which I couldn't explain. Once I changed the setting and changed it back it would usually correct it.
Back when I was last active in the community, I was working on a longer tutorial/write-up of everything I used to know about this topic and ACR, but when I looked around for it, I wasn't able to locate it in my files and backups. It was pretty close to being able to post. If I do find it, I may post it as-is, since it seems like it could still be useful.
Good luck and happy simming! :)
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It's 25th April, which means two things. Firstly, it's the perfect date and all you'll need is your light jacket.
Secondly, it means it's @strangetomato 's birthday! 🥳🍅
If you don't know Strange Tomato, she's one of my best Simming friends. Endlessly creative, caring and genuine, she is one of the nicest people I've never met! 😉 But we've been virtual friends for many years, talking all things Strangetown, Drag Race and watching our lives develop away from the keyboards.
For her birthday, I wanted to pay tribute to how much her creativity and storytelling continue to inspire me, by recreating her 'Ophelia's Flower Shop'. A charming little lot created for her amazing story universe and her spin on The Sims 2 premades.
Happiest of birthdays, ST. I adore you. 💙
Oh my! Thank you so much, W! :) I've been quite fortunate to have you as a friend all these years. You're a wonderful person and an A+ friend, would highly recommend.
This remake of the flower shop is gorgeous! I remember I had a lot of fun making this one, and it's nice to see it again like this. I believe you were the one who gave me the idea to use shipping containers to make the shop. It was the perfect choice for this. :)
This popped into my head the other day and made me laugh. I've been browsing a lot of Best of Reddit Updates lately, but wow, what a sign of how your story has stuck with me!
"AITA for defending my brother when he damaged an expensive Servo?"
"My (22m) girlfriend (24f) is an engineer and recently built a Servo. I was spending the day with my brother (21m), and decided to stop by her house. While we were talking, my brother activated her Servo. He's a romance sim, and not a very practical person. We used to have a poor relationship, but both of us have been working on improving it recently. When the Servo activated, it came onto him. My girlfriend and I caught him in the middle of trying to be intimate with the Servo. My girlfriend got extremely angry and called him a bunch of names. This was the same kind of thing that my dad (and I) used to say to him - that he's a loser, good for nothing, etc. I stepped in to defend him, and she broke up with me. Am I the asshole (AITA)?
Final verdict: Everyone sucks here (ESH)
I love this, lol! Thank you so much for sharing. :) Just in time for Valentine's Day. I remember second guessing this absurd plotline (that had arrived in my mind fully formed from the ether) but I'm very glad I went for it. Boy was this ever fun back in the day.
And for what it's worth, I would bestow the a-hole status on the brothers for sure. They're a disastrous force of nature as a pair and Tank should've realised this. They made some... choices.
Did I ever get to the part where Tank receives the bill for Tits? I can't remember. I know I intended to have Tank required to continue to interact with Kendal at work and have them come to some sort of civil working relationship. Mostly civil.
Thank you for the memories! <3
Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you have a safe and peaceful holiday season. Thank you to everyone for the kind messages on the love meme. I greatly appreciate your kindness and generosity.
I thought I would share our newest family member, Caramel. She is tiny and sweet and a real lap cat. Tomato One is thrilled. He's a born cat lover and while Petey has warmed up to him, he doesn't get up with him. Caramel is all about it. :) But I'm her person. I like that. When we visited the SPCA, she came right over and settled in on my lap and stayed there for our whole visit. She picked me. <3
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Holiday Love Meme 2022
The sims community Holiday Love Meme is back for another year! Please join us and sign up, spread the word, and spread the love to your fellow simmers. ♥ Let your friends and followers know you’ve signed up so they can send love and join in, too. This is especially true for any ts3 and ts4 simmers that join in (all are welcome!), as this meme tends to be primarily in the ts2 community–it started there on LiveJournal in 2009 (over ten years of holiday love)!
Thank you to @profesionalpartyguest for volunteering to create this great banner for us. :)
strangetomato reblogged
Holiday Love Meme 2022
The sims community Holiday Love Meme is back for another year! Please join us and sign up, spread the word, and spread the love to your fellow simmers. ♥ Let your friends and followers know you’ve signed up so they can send love and join in, too. This is especially true for any ts3 and ts4 simmers that join in (all are welcome!), as this meme tends to be primarily in the ts2 community–it started there on LiveJournal in 2009 (over ten years of holiday love)!
Thank you to @profesionalpartyguest for volunteering to create this great banner for us. :)
Anonymous asked:
Hey there! Just a small reminder that you rock and are valuable to the community here :3 No need to respond, just a random blurb of appreciation!
Thank you for this message. That's so kind of you. I would love to get involved in the community again, however small the contribution might be. I continue to have major pink flashing issues, young tomatoes who often want to play games or make pixel animations on the desktop, and my free time is largely consumed by homeschooling my youngest. He needed it, so I'm doing my best to rise to the challenge. I hope to one day claim back a little more time for myself.
Anyway, I ramble on. I do miss being more involved in the sims community, and it means a lot to me to hear you say that. Take good care. <3
Holiday Love Meme 2022
The sims community Holiday Love Meme is back for another year! Please join us and sign up, spread the word, and spread the love to your fellow simmers. ♥ Let your friends and followers know you’ve signed up so they can send love and join in, too. This is especially true for any ts3 and ts4 simmers that join in (all are welcome!), as this meme tends to be primarily in the ts2 community–it started there on LiveJournal in 2009 (over ten years of holiday love)!
Thank you to @profesionalpartyguest for volunteering to create this great banner for us. :)