Sims I Like: Hippie Girl

The origin for the hippie girl was actually a short story about a sloppy guy who's changed into a waifish vegan hippie during a "time storm" that alters all of reality.  But I used it again in Transformed for Thanksgiving.  In that story a wife is sick of her husband being an insensitive jerk who just sits around watching football and drinking beer while she slaves away in the kitchen.  As she breaks the wishbone, she wishes he could be nice and sensitive.  But be careful what you wish for, right?

You've got the long hair that hasn't probably been washed in a while, the wire-framed granny glasses, the long paisley skirt, the sandals, and not a lot of makeup because that's tested on animals.  You could see her at a PETA rally, right?

Sims I Like: Vinaya Gupta

This last full week really has no theme.  Just a few strays.  Today's is Vinaya Gupta from Another Chance (Faces of CHANCE #1).  Vinaya was a conman named Vincent who was hired to steal a drug called FY-1978, which was the same drug that created Stacey Chance.  When he's shot and falls off a roof, Vincent gets shot with the drug and becomes a young Indian woman who has to sex up a scientist in order to steal the plans for a project he's working on if Vincent wants to get his life back.

This is from the latter half of the book when she's on the run from her evil handlers.  An Indian woman can't really dye her hair the way a white woman would but she does get it cut differently and some new clothes that are a far cry from the army uniform she was wearing.  A friend says she looks like she's ready to go to a Demi Lovato concert?  Agree or disagree?

Sims I Like: Porn Star

In a little story called "Candy Krush" there's a guy who gets the chance to become his favorite porn star:  Candy Kane.  He gets to shoot her final movie and learns some startling truths about her, like that she's almost 40, wears a wig, and uses a body double.  In her final movie, the "plot" is that she's a superhero going after some bad guys.  Of course she has to have a really skimpy costume, which is just basically a red leather bikini top and red panties; that's about all some actual comic book superheroines wear.

You can see the forehead wrinkles that help to show her age.  The blond hair looks kind of like a wig, doesn't it?  Especially with the black eyebrows so you know the carpet and drapes don't match.

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Sims I Like: Dominatrix

Transformed Into a Dominatrix is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?  A dude turns into a sexy chick who gets off on beating guys up.

The corset, gloves, spike necklace, and boots I downloaded separately, but she looks pretty sexy and badass, right?  All she needs is a whip or riding crop.  No pain, no gain, right?

Sims I Like: Arrrr, Matey!

This week's Sims I Like theme is:  Costume Party!  I made this pirate costume for Identity Theft (Race Against Time #3).  I wrote about that book last Wednesday.  In this part of the story, the guy is a sexy pirate captain on a ship of women who like Amistad killed the men holding them to take the ship for themselves.  Unlike those slaves they kept sailing the ship and taking booty for themselves.

I downloaded the pirate hat and patch from a site.  The jacket wasn't intended as a pirate costume really but it looks pretty much like one, right?  The skirt and boots also aren't real pirate items, but close enough.  By now maybe there is an actual pirate costume you can download.  Or not.

Fool Me Twice: Thoughts on Suicide Squad

Tuesday I finally got around to watching Suicide Squad, the end of the big summer movies.  Like the whole summer movie season it was pretty blah.  I'm sure most people who want to have already seen it, but just in case--spoiler alert!

My biggest problem was simply that I didn't really care about the characters.  If you think about it, the story kind of borrows from The Avengers.  In the same way that losing the Tesseract prompted Nick Fury to call up the Avengers, Amanda Waller losing control of the Enchantress prompted her to call up the Suicide Squad.  That being said, why did one work and the other really didn't?  Thinking about it, the Avengers had all been in at least one movie--though technically Mark Ruffalo hadn't but the Hulk had--and the characters were all pretty well known to start with.  None of the Suicide Squad had appeared in a movie, though a different Deadshot and Waller appeared on Arrow and Harley Quinn and Killer Croc were on the Batman Animated Series and probably other shows too.  But these versions of the characters hadn't appeared anywhere and really they weren't A-list characters.

More to that, a lot of the characters weren't really developed much.  As the highest-paid, Deadshot and Harley Quinn had fairly developed backstories.  El Diablo was really the only one with an actual character arc it seemed like.  The rest were pretty much just there.  I mean Captain Boomerang is what:  an Australian guy who robs banks and uses boomerangs for...reasons.  Killer Croc is a lame-looking monster (his head looked too big for his body most of the time) who likes BET for whatever reason.  What was the point in having Katana there at all?  The Rick Flagg/Enchantress thing was given lip service but not enough to really make anyone care--maybe if Tom Hardy had played Rick Flagg they would have developed the character more.

As far as characters go, I never liked Harley Quinn, and I still don't like her.  I guess a lot of guys are like the guards at Belle Reve:  they like her because she's that combination of sexy and crazy.  Really she just seems pathetic to me.  I mean she jumps into a vat of toxic chemicals and becomes a criminal just to be with her psycho boyfriend?  Wow, a real symbol for strong, independent women.  Incidentally, maybe it was just the half-filled theater I was in, but Harley's Looney Tunes antics got pretty much zero laughs.  Not even the giggly teenage girls laughed.  Maybe people were just being polite?

Jared Leto as the Joker was pretty lame.  He seemed like Tony Montana in clown makeup.  Meh.  His presence made me wonder what the fuck Batman's been doing all these years.  Maybe instead of worrying about Luthor and the White Portuguese, Batman should have been looking for the pscyho clown running crime in his city?  Nah.  He should be much more worried that Superman might someday break bad instead of the dude terrorizing the city right now.

And then there was poor Slipknot--the man who can climb anything.  Why wasn't his costume a red shirt from the original Star Trek?  Reading some of the early reviews, it was pretty clear the poor guy's only purpose was to demonstrate that the bombs in the necks worked.  Because really all the other characters were people I'd heard of...and then there was that guy.  They couldn't have telegraphed it more if he had been wearing a red shirt.

The weakest aspect of the movie was the villain.  First, Amanda Waller looks like a chump.  I mean she talks up how important it is to recruit metahumans (or apparently nut jobs with absolutely no powers like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang) and then she promptly loses control of the most powerful metahuman out there.  Derp.  And the whole initial function of the Suicide Squad is to bail her out because she stayed too long in Midway City.  Plus then her brain is used to target military sites around the world.  It's pretty hard for her to have fucked it up any worse.

In general the Enchantress is a pretty weak choice for the big bad.  I'm sure the DC Universe has a lot better villains than that.  Obviously a lot of people thought the Joker would be the main villain.  Maybe even Jared Leto thought that when he signed the contract.  And really when the Suicide Squad gets there, why is she engaging in fisticuffs with them?  She has magic for fuck's sake!  I could see her as a villain in a Justice League Dark movie because they're the magic users, but since El Diablo was the only one with magic, it seemed like a mismatch. It was like in BvS:  Doomsday is a good match for Superman and Wonder Woman but what the fuck is Batman supposed to do?  The answer was apparently to be bait.  By the same token, you have a witch for the villain and an assassin and crazy girl with a baseball bat are supposed to challenge her?  Makes no sense.

And then the non-stop music cues.  Were they making a movie or an ad for the soundtrack?  Yeesh.

Not really a lot of good things I can say about it.  It wasn't boring, so that's something.  Meh.

The sad thing is I wasn't really excited by BvS or this movie and yet seeing the trailers for Wonder Woman and Justice League I was still excited.  Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on you; fool me four times...?

Here's the original post for today!  Sims I Like:  The Farmer's Daughter

Maybe you've heard of the farmer's daughter?  I remember an old C64 game where you were the stranger who ends up on a farm and tries to seduces the farmer's daughter without the farmer knowing.  Anyway, I wrote a story based on that called I've Become My Farm Girl Fantasy!  In the story a guy's car breaks down on the road and when he finds a house to ask for help, the lady who lives there is a witch who turns him into her hot daughter and then he ends up having sex with his best friend.  Hooray?

She looks ready for a Farmers Only.com ad with the cowboy hat and flannel shirt.  From the close-up she doesn't look that slutty, except for the exposed bra, but it's different when you see the full-body view and all that bare skin.

Sims I Like: Meter Maid

This uniform is technically for a forest ranger, but in Identity Theft (Race Against Time #3) I use it for a meter maid.  Kinda the same deal, right?  Sure.

In the story, a guy is sucked into a virtual world, where he's turned into a bunch of different women by the insane AI running the joint.  In one chapter he's turned into a meter maid who has to bust a Donald Trump-type guy for multiple parking violations.  It's a parody of those cop movies like Lethal Weapon.

Besides the forest ranger top, I put on an NYPD hat.  And she's wearing completely impractical high-heeled boots.  I bet you wouldn't mind getting a ticket from her, would you?

Sims I Like: Working Girl

This week's Sims I Like theme is Working Girls.  And because that's probably what you're thinking (and I'm always quick to get down to the gutter) this first one is a prostitute named Dylan from The Incredible Shrinking Manhood!

The story is about a cop who kills the son of a gypsy witch.  She takes revenge by having him slowly turn into a woman.  At one point he becomes a crack whore who does some nasty things in order to avoid jail time and get the crack he needs.

You've got the emaciated body, tiny skirt, tiny top, "classy" tats, and frizzy hair.  You see her walking the street at night and you know what she's up to.  Going my way?

Sims I Like: Renee Kim

This last teenager could also have fit in last week with the Goth characters.  Renee Kim first appeared in the 5th and 8th Tales of the Scarlet Knight books as a Korean-American genius girl.  Her signature look was she wore pigtails of varying bright colors.  They started out as turquoise and changed colors a couple of times in the 8th book.

As one of those things I do, I worked her into some other books.  And then as kind of a meta-inside-joke I wrote I've Become My Asian Girl fantasy Too around her.  It's about a writer who created a series of books about a girl named Renee Kim who at night turns into a succubus who literally fucks guys to death.  Except like Ghost Rider or Spawn she only uses her demonic powers on bad guys.  Anyway, in the story the writer gets bonked on the head and in the dream finds himself inside the final book he was writing.

Anyway, this is the character created with the Sims 3.  I've tried in the Sims 4 but it never quite looks right. 

So you've got the turquoise pigtails with some funny decorations, white glasses, a cool black leather jacket, white T-shirt, and dragon or devil wing necklace.  Probably could use a little more makeup, but otherwise she's totally awesome.

Sims I Like: Hitter

In Girl Power: League of Evil, a group of villains were recruited to kill the good guys.  And they did "kill" the good guys.  But then those villains found themselves turned into young women thanks to an alien weapon unleashed by the one who recruited them.  With the world in chaos, those young women renounced villainy to become heroes.  (In part because like the Suicide Squad they had bombs implanted in their heads but later because they find it's more fun being the good guys.)

Hitter was a British assassin who never had any superpowers and lamented the fact he was put in Gitmo with all the other "freaks."  So he jumped at the chance to get free and kill the people who put him there.  Except when things go wrong, he finds himself changed from a grown man into a scrawny teenage girl.  She has a harder time with this change than any of the others because as a girl she looks a lot like the sister she lost tragically years ago.

As you can see his girl version is plain and mousy with straight brown hair and a plain black hoodie and white T-shirt.  You'd never think this kid was a world-class assassin right?

I made a Sims 4 version but there's no scarf for the hair that I've found yet:

Otherwise it's definitely an improved version.

Sims I Like: Teenage Kari

The Sims I Like theme this week is Teenage Wasteland.  Last Friday featured Kari Chomar as a Goth girl.  Today's is Kari as a teenager from The Stone of Change:  Secrets of the Stone.

As you can see, there's a lot of red involved:  red hair, red shirt, red lips, red shorts, and red sneakers.

Sims I Like: Goth Kari Chomar

To conclude Goth Week, let's go back in time to the Sims 3.  This is from Perfect Worlds:  The Stone of Change.  The story is about a guy who finds a magic stone on an alien world and uses it to change reality around him.  He especially enjoys tormenting his former boss, Kari Chomar.  At one point in the story he turns her into a Goth girl who works as a bartender in a seedy club.

I just think it's cool, but you might not.  Whatever.  We'll see more of Kari next week!

Sims I Like: Graveyard Girl

For Part 2 of Goth Girls week, this is the first one I made for the Sims 4 from the first story in Transformed Into a Goth Girl.  The idea was to make make a girl sort of like the cover for that book.  Though I suppose on the cover the girl has a more purplish corset and wilder purple hair, but whatever.  The story itself is about a guy who plays this old record by a band called the Graveyard Girls (which is based off a song by M83) and when he listens to a certain song on the record it makes him look like this girl.

Not a fan of the boots but I guess I didn't have anything better at the time.  The ripped stockings are kind of neat.  The tats are so light because the skin I used isn't a standard game one so it's more like the tats are under the skin instead of overlaid on it.  It does look kind of interesting.

This is the original book cover to compare and contrast:

The extra black space on the edges was for the paperback version on CreateSpace.

Sims I Like: Megan the Goth Girl

This week's theme:  Goth girls!  This one is named Megan and comes from Transformed for Mother's Day Too.  The gist of the story is that a boy is angry at his mother for embarrassing him on a date with the girl of his dreams.  It's the day before Mother's Day and he basically says he could be a way better mom than her.  So on Mother's Day he wakes up as an adult woman and finds himself caring for a girl named Megan--a young version of his mom.

First Megan is only 5 years old.  Then after a few hours she jumps to 10 years old.  This Goth version is the final one--about 15, which is as old as the boy was when he changed.  The idea is she's a rebellious teenager who thinks her mom is an idiot--until she nearly gets raped by her "boyfriend" and her mom has to come to her rescue.  That's when the boy realizes how hard it is to be a mom.

I like the combination of the hair and outfit.  The hair and top are both black-and-purple, so they go together.  Plus she's got the 5-pointed-star collar, nose ring, a couple tats, black lipstick, and the trendy glasses.  She's totally awesome, albeit a pain in the butt if you're her mom.