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Small Simblr Saturday Appreciation Post 💜
Hey y'all! Since @tau1tvec came up with the idea for this event, I thought I'd shout out some of my personal favorite always free creators :)
To start it off though, you know I gotta recommend @alwaysfreecc, the finds blog currently managed by myself, @superflare, @nicatnite88, and @toastie-sim! We only reblog cc creators that are always free (no exclusive or early access) and use the tag #alwaysfreecc to find your posts! If you're an always free cc creator, please use the tag and/or mention the finds blog so we can get your catalog reblogged there 😌 now, onto the list~!
@xiuminuwu - a creator I've really been loving lately! they have a variety of cute cc, including poses and unique, fashionable clothing~
@hexcodesims - a very underrated creator with tons of clothing edits for masc frame sims, I also love their big bud press palette~
@herecirmsims - makes amaaaazing unique poses for a variety of situations
@adelarsims - has awesome ideas that you wouldn't think of, amazing variety of cc like hello
@janjumjam - adorable cc for kids, gives me happy feels and nostalgia
@ceeproductions - some of my fav cc on this site, great variety for both masc and fem frame
@powluna - super cute items for kiddos... a staple in the mods folder
@ssspringroll - occult cc for daysss, cool sliders and presets, they got it all
@nicatnite88 - yes I'm biased, but the variety and hustle cannot be denied, just look at the amount of cc!
@bobnewbie - hairs, facial hairs, accessories, gorgeous sims... what else could you want?
@darlyssims - UNIQUE. really cool ideas for hairs, accessories, and more
@cliffirem - clothes and hairs with an alt twist i really enjoy
@sammi-xox - beautiful skinblends and super useful skin details
@warwickroyals - gorgeous formalwear, especially good for all you royal simblrs!
@marsosims - cute cute cute all over... hairs, clothes, even build/buy cc!! we stan
@whyhellosims - lots of stuff for kids, build buy cc, and a slant of humor!
@creamlattedream - masc cc staple in this house, lots of cute recolors and casual wear
@pluto-sims - the cutest patterns EVER, adorable kids clothing, posters and walls~
@deathpoke1qa - unique is my word for the day bc my lord... it's popping off! alt staples you can't miss
@icchixxxxxx1 - hairs hairs hairs... and more cute hairs! if you like the cutesy anime look but still mm, go here
@mellosakicc - so. many. t-shirts. but also other clothing, tats, and hairs! another alt cc maker with work ethic for days
@whirliko - cute bright recolors... we have no choice but to stan the pop of color
@shandir - conversions, historical, occult, variety... hello??? get going
@mangosimoothie - the ideas are popping... once again things that would never pop into my brain but are brilliant... just go look and see what I mean
@igorstory - facial hair... a totally unrepresented niche of sims cc.. I have all their stuff... download it
@madameriasims4 - CLASSICS. STAPLES. I use their clothes all the time and they also got build/buy stuff.
@aniraklova - alt & punk vibes to the tippy top, fallout, chains, mohawks, whats not to love??
@pixelunivairse - ONE OF MY FAVS. use their cc constantly for my fem frame sims. uses tons of cute patterns that I love
@demondare-sims - cas cc i love, I use it pretty much every time I play, mm and practical
@fiftymilehighclub - talking about work ethic, it's here... so many recolors in bomb palettes that you'll never download them all... or can you??? try
@sforzcc - retired from cc making, but I gotta recommend, bc I use their wardrobe sooo much... brilliant
@casteru/@woosteru - also retired, but same as #16, I use their cc every day!
@xldkx-cc - am I just listing staples of my mods folder now? yes!! I am not biased!! go and get all that cas cc and poses and deco sims NOW!!
@a-luckyday - if you don't know ms a luckyday poses u have not lived in life!! they have a huge amount of them, solo, couple, group, accessories, and more
@gothoffspring - really cute and vibey recolors, I use them a lot, also some build buy items too!!
@jellymoo - we love the clothing... mm aesthetic to the core and cute af
@gladlypants - lotsa adorable items I adore, variety of patterns too
@birksche - tons, I mean TONS of hairs bro, years worth, always free... a treasure trove
@teekalu - supreme maxis match, vanilla vibes that are so lovely... ideal for low cc players
@honeyssims4 - poses, honey!!! the variety will shock you. and they ALL look good
@sewerwolfx - really cool stuff with alt style, some recolors and some from SCRATCH, we love to see it
@historysims4 - historical cc from many different eras!! iconic
@hamsterbellbelle - some of the most unique scifi cc i ever seen... idk how they even make some of that stuff! must see
@surely-sims - beautiful legendary amazing gorgeous never been done before... their fallout inspired cc made me weep and almost solely furnished one of my households, work
...annnndddd I hit my limit!!! I guess thats it for now but maybe a part two... 😉
#ceci speaks#text#smallsimblrsaturday#alwaysfreecc#i tried to put a lot of ppl i havent seen mentioned as much#but theres still so many to love#can u tell my mental state deteriorating as the post went on#it is currently 6 am i am going to bed#hopefully this is coherent when it posts from the queue LOL#alwaysfreecc creator boost
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“don’t call this ship between two ghostfaces ‘doomed by the narrative’ they deserved to die because they traumatized so many people-” well what if this was all fictional at the end of the day and we are all just here to play toys and have fun.
#ceci speaks#scream franchise#scream#i need to make a new tag for scream DISCOURSE atp#but man. it just dont ever gotta be that serious. everyone says their blorbo was doomed by the narrative!#it doesnt mean u think theyre good ppl. they are not even real people so lets start there but.#like i will call tamber doomed yuri and say amber didnt deserve to die and rip my beautiful wife why would they do this to her :((#but i still hate when ppl woobify her. and i certainly dont. bc she is like what if michael myers was a 5’2 teenage goth-ish girl#post was not anywhere near related to THEM btw im using it as an example#its not a serious thing 😭
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Apparently there's a game bug (from ea, not caused by cc) with growing together in which pulling a sim's tooth will result in a change of skintones/genetics that's then unfixable in cas. I saw this mod that should prevent it from happening, I would install it just in case. (And here's the reddit thread I saw about it with some more info)
#ceci speaks#text#nonsims#delete later#i thought id mention it since its teeth related#its not my fault!#😂#plus i dont want any of yalls kids to get messed up
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Statement from Overwolf
...Okay, first of all, this whole statement is sadly nothing but them taking the same exact route as before: misdirecting & changing the narrative to only be about "victims" when their Home Support initiative is partnered with the ILF, an openly Zionist organization. This isn't about innocent parties only when they're partnered with an organization that contributes directly towards IDF Military Intelligence. All of the money from the fund goes to the ILF's bank account to distribute, per their own FAQ page. And even without that, the association alone is enough to boycott. Overwolf and Curseforge cannot be "clean of politics" while their CEO partners with and therefore directly supports Zionist parties.
Screenshots directly from Home Support website & ILF website
This statement overall stinks because it puts the blame fully onto people with legitimate concerns by calling them all harassers. Have some people gone too far towards creators? 100%. I know that well. But Overwolf is clearly using that to deflect off of themselves, and this is why it never should have been done in the first place. Y'all focused on the wrong shit- the smaller targets instead of the big ones, and the wrong claim that they're directly funding the IDF with CF revenue, and now they're doing exactly what I said they would: once again using the fact that that's not technically true to weasel out of people's concerns. They even directly call out the fact that it's misinformation like I said they would! They clarified fucking nothing, they repeated the same shit they already said because they know they can. We need to change the focus of the boycott so that they are forced to address their actual wrongdoing! Stop spending all your time sending threatening messages on anon and instead spread factual information with sources and reach out to creators in good faith effort to get them to speak without the fear of being attacked. They will stay silent as long as the negative consequences (financially & socially) is all on them and not Overwolf & EA.
I'm still working on a comprehensive post with everything, but in the meantime, please spread this post around.
#ceci speaks#nonsims#text#important#the curseforge issue#boycott stuff#curseforge boycott#i hate being right but what can i say#tumblr fucking up another thing by not understanding boycotts and reacting to any criticism with middle school hostility?#say it aint so!#god this message is so fucking slimy#maybe they read my posts lmfao#or maybe im just that spot on with shady ass parties bc damn#yall were on my ass hardcore werent ya but i told u so!!!!!#curseforge#overwolf#overwolf boycott
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black cc creators, pls put your hands up 🙌 im making a recommendation list 😉
(everyone can reply with recommendations tho even if it's not you & reblog for visibility! ty)
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I'm sitting here thinking about a pretty age-old debate on simblr... the race of sims that have black hairstyles, particularly in cc preview pics.
I know it's been talked about repeatedly, but when it comes to cc previews for paid cc I think it's especially worth talking about. Some people say, well, the creator only uses a few different sim models each time, it's not like they're intending to be racist or something. It's just for convenience, because they're busy, they're hustling, they gotta pay their bills. They always use the same sim, so it's fine. But like... isn't that gross to y'all? Someone making money off of black hairstyles, but they can't even be assed to go in cas for 15 mins to make a black sim? Isn't that a prime example of appropriation of black culture for profit? Like the human aspect of us as a person is gone, it's just another part of us being advertised and sold. Black hair makes money, black hair cc is limited, it will sell and nothing else matters. It feels like black hairstyles are some kind of trend with them too, because none of these creators made them before it was possible to profit off of them... back then it was "too hard" just like now it's apparently "too hard" to make a different preview sim.
Also, it's not lost of me that when a creator does make a black sim for their previews, they're as light skinned and white looking as possible. Whether just by skintone, very eurocentric features (like they just gave a white sim slightly darker skin), vitiligo to make most of the skin light, or claiming the sim has albinism. And while some of this I'm sure is just finding that aesthetic more "pretty", I also think this has to do with potential sales. I'm going to be honest... besides engagement by black simblr itself, I've noticed a lot of posts I have get less engagement/reblogs if the sim in question has darker skin and darker hair. It's much more likely to pick up in the mainstream cc finds blogs/YouTube videos etc, if the content is for white sims or the sim has lighter skin and light hair. I don't care about engagement and simply make whatever sim I want to make, and since I do have that variety, it's how I noticed this strange trend. And with the volume of content paywall creators make, I think they noticed this too. Posts with lighter skinned sims get better engagement, and thus, make more money.
Have you ever noticed, even in paywalled cc packs, there will usually be a sort of token effect? One white sim, one ethnically ambiguous sim, one black sim. This is great if you're showing off something that will vary for different skintones- makeup and skin details, for example- but why is it always like this? And why is the variety usually only in previews for cc packs instead of solo items (like hairs)? It feels like it's all to sell better, to appeal to different demographics and say, hey, I didn't forget poc exist! Please pay for my content! It feels disgenuine, and since creators like this rarely engage with the community anymore besides paid content, it's hard to figure out whether they feel this way or not.
Personally, I don't care much what people do in their own games- I might look at them weird for a sec, but I move on, cos it's their issue not mine. But like many other aspects to this community, when it crosses over into paid content, it sparks my interest. It feels like everything, everything, is about maximizing profit now. And for the people that focus on that, that's their prerogative and all, I can't exactly stop them, but. It's just something I observed and wouldn't mind discussing with y'all.
(Note: I don't apply the "profiting off black culture" part to black creators, obviously. Also no hate to any creators that do this stuff. Be reasonable adults, please. I'm just discussing in a constructive criticism type of way.)
#ceci speaks#nonsims#text#the patreon issue#ceci speaks a lot more#negative#kinda?#just thinking#first thinkpiece in a while lol
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WHERE ARE YOU CHRISTMAS!!! WHY CANT I FIND YOU???! WHY HAVE U GONE A WAAAAY
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Thoughts on Blenoween?
https://www.patreon.com/posts/89214568?pr=true
So... it's just the simblreen concept stolen and renamed so that it can be paywalled? Right after they asked if they could paywall simblreen and the official account said no? We really can't have one fucking thing in the community that's just for fun and isn't monetized? My thoughts are... yikes forever. Gross. Disgusting. Ew. Fucking vultures. Hopefully they rip their pants in public. That's about it.
@simblreenofficial @xldkx 💀
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#ceci speaks#nonsims#text#curseforge boycott#overwolf boycott#negative#all of the comments said boycotting does nothing btw but still#i find it amusing just peeking in seeing how mad twitter is for example#but like#where was this energy before#or was it just easier to be mad at cc creators instead lol
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sorry if someone asked this before, but what mods do you usually use? (besides cc i mean) i just got the game and dont know what mods are good. you seem like the person to ask (love ur cc btw)
Hi nonny! Thanks for the compliment 😊 and oh lord, I have a lot of mods. Let me try to remember some of them. It would take forever for me to describe them all (and prob be overwhelming to you) so I'd suggest going through them one at a time and seeing if you like them.
Wicked whims (or wonderful whims for SFW version)
Basemental drugs
MC Command center
More cas columns
UI cheats extension
Realistic childbirth (and all other pandasama mods)
Realistic pregnancy overhaul (and all other lumpinou mods)
Roburky meaningful stories
Language barriers mod
Lot51 mods (pretty much all of them)
Kuttoe mods (all of them)
Simrealist mods (HLC, mortem, sim national bank + bills)
Chippedsim mods (ghastly ghosts, pet mod, school tweaks)
Adeepindigo mods (Healthcare redux, dental, eye care, divergent sims, a few others)
Falsehope mods (a few smaller ones like cherished moments)
Helaene mods (preferences plus mod, fear factory, all their social mods)
Brazenlotus mods (harvestables and such)
Littlbowbub mods (recipes)
Simplyanjuta no makeup/acc on randomized sims (and other mods)
Srslysims mods (cooking overhaul mostly)
Waffle mods (miscellaneous milestones, dyslexia font, a few other small mods)
Andirz mods (laundry service and urn overhaul)
Ilex mods (all of them)
Carls dine out reloaded
Littlemssam mods (a lot of misc ones her catalog is huge)
Plumlace immersive social bunny
Bienchen misc mods (infant care tweaks especially)
There's even more but I think that's enough ahsjdkd. Apologies for it being messy, I did this from my phone. I hope it helps and isn't too overwhelming 🤣
#asks#anonymous#ceci speaks#resources#i know i don't refer early access creators but#not sure if there's a single mod maker for sims 4 that isn't ea#lmfao
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Also, I genuinely want y'all to look at the quality of these hairs that are being paywalled. I'm not trying to be mean, but I've noticed a low quality in their meshes and textures for some time now, and I want to point some of them out that are visible in the preview pictures so that y'all can clock this in the future (hopefully before paying).
Some of the issues I see are very stretched meshes leading to muddied textures, obvious but easily fixable clipping, bulky and sloppily scaled mesh parts, and lazily duplicated mesh parts (that not only look identical across the hair, but can add a lot to the poly count). And if this is all visible in the preview, it is 100% guaranteed to look worse in game. I also know this because there's only so many black EA hairs that you can frankenmesh, so I've worked with all of these same meshes/textures at one point or another. They are visibly very stretched, and there is no excuse for them to look like this and be paywalled.
I used to use josheoh's hairs in the brief period of time that they were a free creator, and I stopped downloading due to these quality issues. If they were still free, I wouldn't even mention it. But these are paywalled black hairs, during black history month, that were evidently not put together with much care at all. The only thing I can think of is that it was a quickly made cash grab, and that's extremely disappointing. Unless the quality is unintentional and they're just bad at cc making, but even then, well... the whole paywalling thing is pretty distasteful on its own. Please do better!
Edit: I just want to add to this post, that I know they do commissions. Based on the consistent quality issues I've noticed from them for the entire time they've been posting cc without any noticeable improvement, I do not recommend commissioning them. Please be careful with your money and look elsewhere.
#ceci speaks#text#the patreon issue#negative#joshseoh#sadly i wouldnt even dl these for free#i just ignored the quality issues for a long time cos well theyre not the only one with quality issues#but the way theyve been advertising their black hairstyles specifically this month like a trend and then coming out with this#its just kinda gross man#literally really trying to be nice guys#pls dont send hate btw we are adults thx
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if any yall paid for this im laughing at you 😭
#ceci speaks#nonsims#text#delete later#negative#MAAM#IN BLACK HISTORY MONTH?#and why is she white 💀#the patreon issue#sorry to be a hater but why tho
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Joshseoh kinda just ignored everyone pointing out it was wrong to paywall this during black history month and that whitewashing black ppl is wrong, because... shilling more bad quality hairs was more important ig? so anyway...
Y'all can download it here if ya really want it!
(tho tbh the quality is so bad i can't exactly recommend it...)
#s4cc#josheoh#its midnight so ill reblog this again tomorrow#credit to dhm#i would encourage everyone to start getting paywall content from there or rebels#i dont usually post stuff anymore bc its just so much easier for yall to just get telegram but#idk them just ignoring everyones comments kinda rubbed me the wrong way lol#it just shows this dude is mad weird bc if he'd just said sorry and made it free im p sure everyone wouldve been fine#ignoring it just shows they don't give af and thats p rotten#negative#the patreon issue#ceci speaks
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"I'll be going through my recent pledgers list once I'm home".
Just saving this for future reference... always remember to be careful who you pledge to people, in case you get caught in the crossfire of an awful creator on the warpath. They do love their doxxing... and canceling the recent pledges of innocent people with no possibility of a refund. Classy.
#ceci speaks#text#nonsims#the patreon issue#unidentifiedsims#what a class act#lol#i dont even know this person but this attitude is so prevalent these days#why i dont trust anyone#you can be innocent and still get caught in something nasty
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PSA to Early Access Creators: please stop tagging @alwaysfreecc. It's not for you. See the above definitions if you're confused. Thanks!
#ceci speaks#nonsims#text#the patreon issue#its been relentless lately#so many ppl i never heard of that just started paywalling tagging the blog#can ppl not read or???
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There should be a cc reviews blog for paywalled cc creators so people can know how the quality is before they pay for it/pledge to a creator 🤔 like discussing poly count, presence of LODs/maps/hat chops, whether their cc works on fat sims or on different skintones, what the items are edited from if they're small EA mesh edits, etc. Sorted by creator with notes of prices per month and how it compares to EA's prices and the prices of content from other gaming communities (which is usually $0). Also a safety section to note when a creator has shared patrons' personal information in the past. I'm sure it would ruffle some feathers, but a blog like that would be an invaluable resource for the community. In fact, there should be multiple blogs like this. The more ways to review the small businesses in the market that they've created, the better.
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