Cocteau Twins
Please find a collection of eight poster pictures, sixteen square paintings available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh by Yarona at Sims Modeli, and the square pictures a mesh by OrangeMittens from their old website Indigo Sims (RIP!), so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
Please also find a collection of three T-shirts featuring various motifs from the band’s artwork over the years.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
The Cocteau Twins were a British band who broke up acrimoniously right at the point they were attracting international attention in the 1990s, but who
found a new generation of fans due to the use of their songs in a number of coming-of-age movies (and one coming-of-death …) along with its former leader singer Elizabeth Frazer’s contribution to The Lord Of The Rings movie trilogy soundtrack.
Regarded by critics as one of the most influential post-punk acts, the band started as similar in sound to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bauhaus, but with a softer more dreamlike quality which was to have a major influence on the later wave of late 1980s goth acts, particularly All About Eve and Fields of the Nephilim.
As one of the flagship acts on 4AD records, they were heavily involved in its This Mortal Coil project, its first release being the single ‘Song Of The Siren’ – in reality the Cocteau Twins covering a Tim Buckley song. It stayed twenty weeks in the UK indie charts, bringing the band to greater attention, and the following year ‘Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops’ became the bands first mainstream chart hit (albeit only reaching No.29 in the UK), followed the next year with ‘Aikea-Guinea’ charting in the lower ends of a number of charts worldwide thanks to generous TV coverage of its promotional video (although some attributed this to the affectionate black and white cat in it).
In 1988, the band signed a deal with Capitol Records in the U.S., which marked a change in musical direction to a lighter more accessible sound. Whilst still clearly within the alternative genre, this created tensions with 4AD. Although 1990’s ‘Heaven Or Las Vegas’ was easily the band’s greatest commercial success (and the title track its most successful single worldwide), the band fell out with 4AD and signed (to most commentators’ surprise) with the revived Fontana label – whose only successful act at that time was the synth jazz Swing Out Sister.
During this period, Fraser gave birth to her only child, and her relationship with co-writer Robin Guthrie disintegrated (himself undergoing detox from alcohol and drug dependency), and the strain from the increased workload from becoming more popular worldwide – although not superstar levels – was beginning to tell, and although they managed to complete a seventh album, ‘Milk And Kisses’ featuring the minor hits ‘Tishbite’, ‘Violaine’ and ‘Rilkean Heart’, an enforced layoff afterwards proved fatal to the band’s continuation, and an attempted reunion in 2005 folded at the last minute when Fraser refused to share a stage with Guthrie – ending the Cocteau Twins for good.
The band picked up a new generation of fans when ‘Song To The Siren’ was used in the most emotive scene of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones (2009) when Saiorse Ronan’s character finally accepts she has to move on into the afterlife, which led to ‘Pearly Dewdrop Drops’ and ‘Aikea-Guinea’, along with ‘Lorelei’ and ‘Pandora’ from the band’s 1984 ‘Treasure’ album (their first to receive a UK silver disc), to be placed in a number of Hollywood movies and TV shows. Jackson was also to hire Fraser for his Lord Of The Rings trilogy soundtrack.
Remake Of Tiny1
Tiny1 redone.
The original Tiny1 ran a blog called Tiny1’s Babbling Brook, featuring her Sims and stories, including the Tale of Two Little Duckies.
She did two Simselves on the old EA forum, both of which came with lots of cc – the first one had some sort of wings!
They were made back in the pre-Supernatural days, so guessing she’d have wanted to become a fairy when it came out – especially as she was smaller than average in real life (hence her nickname).
Max up Tiny1’s writing, painting, violin and piano skills, and we’re done (‘NRass Master Controller, come to baby!’).
This is part on an ongoing pet project to ‘rescue’ from the EA forum and elsewhere old Sim selves (before they are lost forever) and update where necessary.
A lot of people made Simselves in the early days uploaded to the EA forum and elsewhere in .Sims3pack format, but packaged with custom content – never a good idea.
The safest way to give Sims for upload from experience is in .sim format with a list of whatever cc they need and the links (or bundled in .package form with it if you’re all ‘whatever, byach!’ to the custom content maker).
An Igazor Simself And Other Stuff Have Been Doing
Made for you know what in you know where once we get to the Al-Simhara section.
Had guessed almost at once that Igazor’s ‘simself’ was one of the premades with some cosmetic changes – namely the guy with the beany, the sideburns and the stupid flip flops.
All that was required was change the hair, the skin colour, the eye colour, add the stubble, change the eyebrows and alter the settings, switch to the premade Supernatural pack blue shirt and t-shirt combie – voila! Looks just the same as the avatar on the EA forum.
Decided to give him corderoy trousers, as denims are too obvious.
Also messing about making stuff on Ophelia Isle by the underrated Goblindolly (now wasting her talents on the stupid Glitterturd), until the Alienware power pack gave out after only a year and had to wait for a new one to arrive. Build in wear out from our friends in the People’s Republic, don’t you just love it?
Lesson learned to stretch the wire out from the start and hang it up at night from the lap top to keep it straight. This prevents the curling at the head where the plug blue light is, causing the internal wires to stretch and pull away from the socket over time.
Love Alienware laptops (if you type as much as I do they are crucial), but really growing sick of the way users are treated as milking cows for spare parts to keep our babies running.
Next project, Tiny1.
After the last shit year and a half, good for something to happen to lift everyone’s mood.
(Chances of getting any sleep with the racket outside are minimal though).
£25 000 Fundraisers For Lachrymose Soccer Brat Symptomatic Of A Mawkish Society Where Fake Is Real And Real Is Fake
In a drivel fixated society which cares more about what pronouns are being used than people sleeping rough, feelings count for more than common sense. Generation Skeet ‘triggers’ to trivia but ignores big issues until its turn to be this week or month’s fashionable cause in the Fatuous Calender to mask they truly don’t care, no matter what the social justice rhetoric regurgitated.
Over the last few days, the easily offended brigade have been beside themselves over a German child crying not because RAF Lancaster bombers had reduced her house to rubble and raized her locality to the ground in a firestorm, but because her team lost 2-0 to England in a game of football for the first time in living memory.
Kids being kids, to her it was immensely upsetting, and the spoilt little brats turn on the tears readily the instant they don’t get their own way. It’s part of growing up, discovering it’s better you don’t always get what you want and you don’t always win, making victories the sweeter when they do come. Or at least, it used to be.
One wonders what the child will think when older and reflects on her parents taking her somewhere that could easily have left her an orphan, all for the sake of watching men kick a football about.
Pause to reflect on the wisdom of taking a child to one of the world’s premier Covid hotspots in order to see a match they could have watched on TV back in Germany. Selfish guardians have long factored in sporting tournaments and other occasions into family holiday time under the pretense of doing things together when it’s really only about themselves – today’s generation of egocentric snowflakes are worked examples of Larkin’s first verse of ‘This Be The Verse.’
Adults being adults, they never miss a chance to regress and set the worst example to their brood – from the monsters of the school sports team circuit to doping them so they can get pissed at the local Tapas bar while their tots lie unconscious in their hotel beds (and just hope no local child snatcher is about).
Twitter is the cesspit forever proving that rule, the response to TV’s very own ‘Won’t somebody please think of the children?’ snapshot was pretty routine, no matter what the claims.
Pathetic, spiteful, vindictive – but hardly on par with parents who reduce their children to tears so they’d get their fifteen seconds of fame on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Former footballer Stan Collymore was being a touch melodramatic with his anthrodynia. But that’s showbusiness.
Joel Hughes on the other hand has merely an eye for the main chance.
No better free publicity in the world for the publicity dependent media sector self-employed than one being done for charity – especially if you can get everyone else to do all the real heavy lifting with their cash. There can be no other possible explanation for this absurd – and offensively so – fundraiser.
A girl he doesn’t know and had no means of contacting her parents before this fund was set up to see if they even consented to having their child and their child’s image used in this manner.
It begs the question why Just Giving allowed this fundraiser to exist?
The motives for the cretinous scum who gave to this skeet are of course manifold.
Welsh and Scottish supporters in sour grapes over their team’s early exit faking ‘outrage’ in a feeble attempt to taint England’s success. Joel Hughes himself is Welsh.
Guardianistas who see all activities by the lower orders giving them joy as somehow suspect of having racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, climate change denying or any other sort of tones of not knowing what Nanny Middle Class Cosmopolitania knows best for them (ie. ‘shut up, sit down, think and do only as we do, for we are your betters’).
Mawkish sentimentalists who will fling money at any old sob story, without which the Gifting sections of the EA Sims forum could never have functioned.
Fools and their money are soon parted – and often going to those who least need it, such as those who can afford £500 football match tickets and hotels in peak season.
Just sayin’ …
No, Animated Dads Aren’t Getting Hotter
One of those moments like a cat woke up by a moron, all you can do is sigh and try to go back to sleep.
This is what passes for an article in one of the U.S.A’s last remaining ‘serious’ newspapers, the New York Times (it’s also America’s third most read newspaper – however figures are inflated by massive sales abroad to university archives, etc. as it is regarded as a newspaper of ‘historical record’).
Usually this sort of kiddy level crap is only found in The Guardian, although they would have moaned that Raya should have been turned into a transgender icon and that the film is ‘racist’ (in the topsy turvy world of the Scott Trust cult, everything that isn’t them is racist, transphobic and climate change denial. Hubristic puritanism may change its syntax over the centuries, but never the love of the smell of its own farts).
Being sexually attracted to a cartoon character isn’t new. Animators have been pushing those buttons since Tex Avery’s ‘Red Hot Riding Hood‘ brillantly parodied tired cartoon scripts cut and paste from fairy tales or Aesop’ fables and tired Hollywood ‘sizzler’ scripts with whatever were that year’s ‘hot couple’.
Disney were even moved to acknowledge the monster they’re created inadvertantly in Frozen II with Olaf’s parody of the ‘sexy Elsa’ trope when playing charades.
If you think animation studios didn’t have an eye on all those increasing numbers of single mothers taking their children to the cinema biologically turned in to seeking out ‘ideal father figures for my child’, you haven’t been paying attention at the ways fathers (and parents in general) slowly ceased being ‘nuisance’ figures to the protagunists (as in the classic era of animation) getting in their way and more ones whose love and approval were sought.
Therefore, no Kyle Buchanan, animated dads aren’t getting particularly any hotter. It’s probably just your favourite masturbation fantasies from ‘Riverdale’ or wherever aren’t doing it for you any more in lockdown. Never mind – there’s always the Buffy and Angel reruns on somewhere where the last three pitiful series were nothing more than episode after tortuous episode of fan service.
Aarin (aka Protagunist aka ZenMachineGun)
Please find a collection of thirty six poster pictures (two groups of eighteen), nine frescos, thirty six square paintings (two groups of eighteen), eight long thin paintings and twenty murals available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh by Yarona at Sims Modeli, the frescos use a mesh by Dyokabb at Sims Angels (fixed by Jazz-Hands for medium levels of detail), the square pictures and the long thin paintings use meshes by OrangeMittens from their old website Indigo Sims (RIP!), and the wall sized murals use a mesh from Helen-Sims, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
(Many thanks to Yarona, Dyokabb, OrangeMittens and Helen-Sims for their work in creating these meshes all those years ago)
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Aarin (aka Protagunist aka ZenMachineGun) was the former Info Guru on the original EA forum for Sims 3.
She also ran the blog Aarin’s Spectacles and the forum Jazz-Hands.
She has been doing drawings, doodles and artwork for some years on her various places online.
How To Restore Your WordPress Blog’s ‘Add New Post’ Page BACK To The Old Classic Style FOR GOOD!
One of the reasons there has been no Jazz-Hands posts until April was having all my old cookies cleared (thank you Nanny Windows Ten, I hate you so much!) also saw me unable to get back to the old style of making posts.
Whatever WordPress have been up to, they’ve been trying to force users by stealth and guile into their stupid Block Editor aimed at Tablet and Dumbphone users (the dumber the person, the more time they spend glued to it) who think they can blog from it – their ‘blogs’ usually being endless reposts of other people’s work or what they last snapped with their phones (what they really need to snap is their necks).
When the other blog I help out on found itself being forced into the ‘new way’ as part of a WordPress update at the end of March and start of April, they quickly found a way of circumventing it.
Overjoyed that I wasn’t looking at moving my blog elsewhere and starting again, I began looking for a more permanent solution, sure that WordPress would have been legally obliged to offer some means of switching back to the old way they simply weren’t telling customers about – and by chance I found it.
Ergo, here for you are very simple step-by-step instructions how to return to the New Post page we all know and love.
Hope this will help some of you out there.
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