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Roll your own!  PSD file with a rose mask if anyone wants to do recolors of @samantaablack bioshock roses. 

@vkg-simblr & @samantaablack Bioshock Infinite Luggage as dressers (for GoS Eureka! theme)

Recolors of Samantaablack’s conversion of Veritas’ Bioshock trees and plants. +5 terrain paints.

Meshes are included.

I’m glad you like the dorm! :)

My full name is actually Olesya. I’m Russian but my name is Ukrainian (though Belarus and Poland have this name too as far as I know). It’s not that popular in my country (at least I’ve never met anyone with this name in real life). And practically everyone who meets me for the first time thinks that I’m Ukrainian :D Also I know that there are three variations of my name: Alesya/Lesya/Olesya. I use a short variant - Lesya but it’s not official let’s say :D Actually my name doesn’t have a short variant. Olesya and Lesya are two different names. But I like when people call me Lesya and everyone on the Internet and my relatives and friends call me like this. I don’t know why my parents picked this name. Probably they wanted something unusual haha.

I agree that it’s difficult for foreigners to pronounce my name as English, for example, doesn’t even have a sound “YA”. And my full name Olesya is pronouncing as “ALL - YEAH - S - YA” Haha, at least I tried to explain :D

Unfortunately, Noah doesn’t have an equivalent. We have only a few equivalents (for example for names Mary, Alex, Max, Helen, Alice and a couple more).

Actually, Russian does have quite a few Western Europe/English-equivalent names, just as English (and other languages) has some names directly lifted from Russian/Slavic names and diminutives…although ultimately I suppose they’re ALL drawn from Greek names, as there are close ties between the Greek language/alphabet and the Slavic languages in general and the Cyrillic alphabet…And there are some names, like Anna, that seem to be in every language with no alterations…but I don’t know which came first. :) Probably Greek. Ultimately, it’s all Greek. Or Latin. Or Norse/Germanic. Or Gaelic. (Or Welsh! Says the person of Welsh descent. ;) )  But anyway! Some name equivalents, off the top of my head, in no particular order (and my apologies for any transliteration weirdness. I’d use the Cyrillic alphabet, but it’s difficult to do so on an American keyboard. :p )

Ivan = John Andrei = Andrew Anton = Anthony Yekaterina = Catherine Pyotr = Peter Karina = Karen (L)Izabeta = Elizabeth Isobel(a) = Isabelle/Isabella Timofei = Timothy Fyodor = Theodore Natalya = Natalie Leonid = Leonard Pavel = Paul Yakov = Jacob Evgeny = Eugene Igor (and Grigory) = Gregory Gyorgy = George Stepan = Steven Mikhail = Michael Raisa = Rose Oksana = Roxanne Ilya = Elijah Olga = Helga Irina = Irene Nikolai = Nicholas Sergei = Serge (Admittedly, not a popular American name, but it’s out there in Western Europe, I believe. :) Especially in France, I think? Or Italy, where it’s Sergio.) Viktor = Victor

And I suspect (though I don’t know for certain) that (O)Lesya is also a form of Helga. It’s far less common than Olga, though…and I like it a lot better. :)

And I could go on. :) But for your anon…I’m not aware of a Russian equivalent for Noah, no. I’m guessing it’s simply transliterated into Cyrillic. (I’d be interested to know what Russian Old Testaments do with the name in Cyrillic… And names like “Methuselah,” for that matter. I’m guessing they’re all just transliterated.) Anyway, it’s a Hebrew name, obviously, and not too many of them seem to have made it into the Slavic languages outside of simple transliterations. I’m really surprised there’s not a specific Joshua/Jesus equivalent, though! But maybe there is and I’m just not aware of it. Or maybe it’s just transliterated, too. 

So…Um, yeah! Sorry. I’m a bit of a Russophile, I’m afraid. It’s all because of Pavel Chekov, the Star Trek character. Would you believe I learned quite a bit of Russian just to be able to write Russian dialogue – mostly mutterings and curses – for him in fanfic? :) I’m such a geek. (Thank you for posting your Russian asks with general-sense translations, by the way! It’s helping me to remember some of what I’ve forgotten. :) )

And also, while I have you…Just what is the matronymic for Yekaterina? I know that an “-ovna” is added to the given name, but Yekaterinovna is a little…cumbersome? Is it shortened to something? My name (Katrina) is also a form of Catherine, and I’m always threatening my kids to call them by their first name and a matronymic (Yes, even my son :) )…only I’m not sure what the proper matronymic would be… Although I’ve also seen Katrina simply transliterated into Cyrillic as-is, so perhaps it should be “Katrinovna”…which is a little less cumbersome. :)

We don’t usually use names from Bible in Russia. Probably Matvej is the only common one, but for some reason we just don’t have Noah, Jesus/Joshua etc. But those who wisshes to call kids by this names will probbly use Noj for Noah as he is in our transcription and Ieshua for Joshua as it’s very common known after “Master and Margaret” by Bulgakov.

Methuselah will be Mafusail if we’re talking about a Bible. Names can really be different from there’re originals in different lnaguages. Moskva and Moscow for ex. Mostly ut is a result of overheard or mistakes in rewritings.

About the list of names but sorry Elsabeth is Elisavetha as some of our rullers from tha past ^^ And Yakov is Polish not Russian name, and I’m pretty sure they write it as Jacov.

We do not use matronymic names, so there’s no rulle for it. And what we add depends on father’s name and gender. For me for example  it’s -evna as my father is Evgeniy. If I were a boy then it would be - vich.

While decorating a porch for a contest, I ran into a slight problem. Leaves and bushes. I needed more! So I now have a few new meshes, some recolors and some edits to make things a bit easier and neater. Sharing is caring so… To keep things from being a great, big wall of text that makes one’s eyes glaze over - I’m going to split everything up into 3 separate posts.

First up, the easiest: The BSI rose bushes converted by SamantaBlack. I needed some flowerless recolors so I made 3 in various greens, since I couldn’t make up my mind which I liked better. Then I got to thinking someone repo’d them but couldn’t get Google to tell me if, who or where. So they’re now repo’d with the smaller rose bush taking it’s textures from the larger rose bush. Since I changed the file names you will need to remove the originals from your downloads folder before putting my edits in there - my files will not overwrite the originals. ALSO: any recolors you may have for the smaller (MD) rose bush won’t be needed anymore, so you can delete those. :)

Since the original post doesn’t list it: the polycounts for these are 1,036 and 1,132. Both rose bushes cost 1 Simoleon and can be found in build mode.

Wands in the air, Slytherin house. Our Housemaster deserves that much.

Hey everyone!

Today I have 10 recolors of Bioshock Infinite’s Hydrangeas (converted by Samantaablack) to share with you! This is one of my favorite plants, but I wanted some more recolors so I decided to make my own! I recolored both meshes but the preview pic shows only 1 of them. Hope you like them! :D

Download here.

「GRAVITATION」

I were inspired by similar post about Britain. I think Russia deserves it too.