Enayla
The fantasy themes are sumptuous and much needed. Realism and idealised
realism are all fine and dandy (I love that sort of thing as much as the
next Sims 2 fetishist) - but the fantasy themes are every bit as
necessary and beautiful. I am mindful of the many story-writers and
film-makers that are in our community. They cannot make "A Midsummer
Night's Dream" or "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare, "The Faerie
Queen" by Edmund Spenser, or "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" by
Christopher Marlowe as a film without fantasy elements and period
costumes.
In all, it would be a very jaded world indeed if there were no room for
the fantastic, whether light as cotton candy or dark as the door of a
crypt. The world of the Sims is given to us bereft of history, myths,
and ancient mysteries; and thus is a vacuum demanding substance. Your
artistic impulses and natural fascination with these things contributes
both to the bountiful richness of these skins and the exquisite
exoticness of them. There is a surfeit of vampiric accoutrements,
props, and genetics, a dribbling of daemonic and diabolical, but a sore
need of the eldritch.
You have turned yourself to this worthy task with the curious vision of
a child and the mature craft of an artist. The body of work that is the
Pixie series is a banquet of the fantastic spectrum from the macabre to
the familiar to the idealised; at no point is any one of these
handcrafted textures not bathed an unearthly light of outré beauty.
Thank you is such a pale phrase given with a miser's emotions when held
against such work as this. There should be a chorus of angels exulting
your praises, a troupe of panegyrists composing psalms in your honour,
and a feast day in the Simlish calendar for Saint Enayla.
"At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and
left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities
impossible at any less magical and quiet hour." - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
