In celebration of her brother Victor’s Bar Mitzvah, Rebecca’s family spends the day at Coney Island. Rebecca is excited to explore Steeplechase Park without the adults, but Victor keeps bossing her and cousin Ana around, so the girls decide to go off on their own. As they get down to their last tickets, they split up and agree to meet back later. When Ana doesn’t show and fire alarms start going off, Rebecca senses that her cousin is in trouble. Ana needs someone who can speak Yiddish to get her to safety and Rebecca is the only one fit for the job.
This dress wins the award for “my favorite American Girl outfit that I’ve yet to purchase.” I took about 50/50 inspiration between the book and the doll. 23 swatches from my Dear Canada palette with solids and florals for the dress. Hat slider compatible, just in case.
This dress is based on the uniforms that British Nurses wore during WW2. I’ve done my best to replicate its likeness in a way that will be useful for all sorts of gameplay!
New hair for females. Mesh from scratch, two versions, base game compatible, comes in 18 colors, hat compatible. Feel free to recolor!
The highest hairstyle is in town, 2 versions, with and without bangs.
TOU: Don’t reupload or claim as your own, Do not edit it to make new CC, forbidden the redistribution in pages like simsdom or adflyfree/patreonfree sites and if you do recolors don’t include the mesh.
Tucked away under a freeway overpass, far from the glitz and glamour of the city, sits this crumbling Second Empire manor—a forgotten piece of a bygone era of Del Sol Valley history.
Originally constructed as the home of George Alano Dela Luna—a debonair oil baron and noted antiquarian—the manor has stayed in the family over the last century, though the inherited fame and fortune have long since passed. It came as a surprise to the highway administration, then, when the owners turned down a succession of increasingly generous offers to purchase the land in order to build a freeway off-ramp in Mirage Park.
Today, the home appears to sit empty, with the front gate completely closed off from visitors, and only an eccentric housekeeper seen coming and going from its grounds. Naturally, rumors abound, with whispers of vampires particularly popular among kids living in the neighborhood…
But, c’mon, vampires? In Del Sol Valley?
Lot details:
Lot Type: Residential (4 bed, 2 bath — though one bedroom is technically a teeny tiny tower fit only for a vampire’s human familiar)
Price:§286,800
Size:30x20
Location:Inner Circle, Del Sol Valley
I’ve used from all packs freely here—in particular, lots of Discover University and Vampires
Please enable bb.moveobjects on when downloading to ensure proper placement of the lot!
Meet the artists who broke all the rules. – We’re counting down to 20th Century at Christie’s in London, our extraordinary sale series dedicated to one of the most exhilarating periods in art history #Christies20thCentury – Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction – 7 March, King Street, 19.00. Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction – 8 March, King Street, 13.00. Handpicked: 100 Works Selected by the Saatchi Gallery – 10 & 22 March (London and New York), 13.00 and TBC. Next Chapter: Contemporary art from an important Italian Collection – 2–14 March, Online. – #art #artist #artists #painting #modernart #contemporaryart #20thcentury #christies
In honor of Veteran’s Day, today’s piece of historic erotic art is the original cover art by Barye Phillips of the best selling 1950 lesbian pulp fiction book “Women’s Barracks” by Tereska Torres. Later editions of the popular book had a more toned down cover that still had women changing in a barracks, but without the suggestively knowing looks between two of the women. (1)
A description which appears to be from the back of the book on the original 1950 publication and is included in the 2000 reprint of the novel reads:
”This is the story of what happens when scores of young girls live intimately together in a French military barracks. Many of these girls, utterly innocent and inexperienced, met other women who had lived every type of experience. Their problems, their temptations, their fights and failures are those faced by all women who are forced to live together without normal emotional outlets.
These girls who chose Tereska Torres, the author, as their confidante poured out to her their most intimate feelings, their secret thoughts. So this book, with all of its revealment and tenderness, is an important book because it tells a story that had never been truly told– the story of women in war.” (2)
According to Wikipedia, Women’s Barracks was the first paperback best seller, “selling over 2 million copies in its first five years, as it was the first pulp to candidly address lesbian relationships. In total 4 million copies of the book were sold in the United States and it was translated into 13 different languages.” (3)
In this scene, we have five attractively depicted women in French World War II uniforms changing clothes in a locker room setting. In the background, we see one lady seated on a bench who appears to be wearing either a towel or a slip, the bare shoulder of another who is mostly out of frame, and another lady who is holding a cigarette in her mouth as she wears a uniform hat, a pink bra, and is working to fasten her uniform skirt. In the foreground, a smiling lady in a pink bra and black panties is pulling her uniform up skirt as she shares an intimate and knowing look with a fully uniformed lady who is watching her dress from a seated position as she smokes a cigarette.
REFERENCE / FURTHER READING
(1) Zimet, Jaye. Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969. New York, NY: Viking Studio / Penguin Group, 1999, Print.
(2) Torres, Tereska. Women’s Barracks. 1950. Reprint. New York, New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 2000. Print.
Today’s piece of historic erotic art is in honor of Veteran’s Day and comes to us from 1947 (1) and is by the prolific (and eventually far more explicit) erotic artist, Tom of Finland. In this scene, a sailor dances groins together with a man dressed in the gay fashion of the day.
REFERENCE / FURTHER READING
(1) Ramakers, Micha. Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity, and Homosexuality. New York, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Print. (p.123)
North America 114 years ago today: Nicaragua–Honduras War (14 April 1907) https://buff.ly/3abb4VT Central American instability came to a head in 1907, when Nicaragua invaded and occupied Honduras. Fed up with the endless conflict in the region, the US stepped in, pushing the five independent Central American states to agree to a peace conference and establish a Court of Justice to resolve future disputes. #1900s #1907 #20thcentury #americanhistory #april #april14 #cartografia #cartographer #centralamerica #diplomacy #historicalatlas #historyinthemaking #historymuseum #historynerd #honduras #maps #mexicanhistory #modernhistory #nicaragua #northamerica #centralamericanstates #riskgame #latinamerica #hispanichistory #unitedstates #welovehistory #worldhistory #todayinhistory #historytoday #thisdayinhistory (at Tegucigalpa, Honduras) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNo0CfwATq9/?igshid=1473c0w3twd99
Asia Pacific 83 years ago today: Battle of Tai'erzhuang (7 April 1938) https://buff.ly/3rX3bcH Despite the outcry over the fall of Shanghai and the Rape of Nanking, the Western powers were not prepared to intervene against Japan. However there was some hope for the Chinese - in April their troops managed their first major victory, defeating the Japanese at Tai'erzhuang and temporarily preventing the connection of the two Japanese armies. #1930s #1938 #20thcentury #april #april7 #asiapacific #atlas #axisallies #cartografia #chinesecivilwar #chiangkaishek #chinesehistory #nazigermany #historyclass #historygeek #historymajor #historymaker #historymatters #historymuseum #empireofjapan #japanesehistory #mapa #maps #sinojapanesewar #japaneseempire #ww2 #wwii #todayinhistory #historytoday #thisdayinhistory (at Taierzhuang Battle Memorial Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNWzRCAAHXN/?igshid=ewxgrdq8ky2z
