It's Romance, Not a Carnival Ride

[crabofdoom]

Red. And. Pink.

Whomever decided that these were the colors or ultimate love and lust deserves a paper cut from every greeting card they handle, forever. Of course, even people like Disney hop on this crazy train (poor, poor Ariel,) and Maxis is no exception, either.

I speak of none other object but... the Love Tub. The free-with-aspiration-points, incredibly useful when you have the point-recharging hack, boon to every Romance sim's social life, and more decorative than the wooden one, what with the leaves and flowers Love Tub. But gaddamn, its colors are ugly.

No longer!



The thing is recolorable, but... I guess rare is the person who ever gets around to it. Hey, it's taken me years, as you can see. Colors included are, from left to right:
Original Hideousness > Depth Charge > Flash Powder > Gold (for that special Wealth sim in your life) > Mail Bomb > Pipe Bomb > Pipe Bomb Double > Shrapnel > and TerraCotta (for all your desert dwelling needs.)

All recolors come with white roses and candles, and are naturally basegame compatible. I think you can only recolor the tub once it's placed, but I'm not 100% certain. And because I'd never had recolors before, I didn't realize this, but:



Tubs and housings are interchangeable! Tuxedo Tub is quite fetching, no?

Oh, and the Love Tub shown is my default replacement from the GoS low-poly theme, which removes the heart cushions. The exact same tub, in fact.


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Thanks to Pooklet and CuriousB for the colors! These are otherwise just Maxis files, so do whatever you wish, so long as they stay free and you don't claim you made them.

Comments

[hat_plays_sims]

Muahaha, awesome.

Which subset are the roses on? I like white roses fine, but I have a certain weakness for red roses. ... Actually, I have a certain weakness for roses, period.

As far as the color symbolism goes, I think you can probably blame the Victorians, but you also have to blame, um, us. The Victorians came up with this whole Language Of Flowers thing-- red roses for passionate love, pink for potential love, white for purity (thus appropriate to send someone you aren't courting), yellow for friendship (also Mom's favorite), and that's all I can remember off the top of my head. However, humans are hard-wired to look at members of our own species and perceive a woman wearing red as sexier than the same woman wearing any other color, and a man wearing red as appearing wealthier and more powerful than in any other color. Even in the Middle Ages, blood was considered the passionate humour, and women produced so much of it that their bodies had to get rid of the excess every month or they'd go crazy.

I'm more inclined to wonder about the taste of people who decide that "Romantic and Sexy" equals "let's coat everything floor to ceiling in red, pink, and purple!" Because feeling like you're inside a floral-scented lung is SUCH a turn-on.

... So that was nerdy.

Er, thank you for the de-tacky-fied hot tubs! Again!