Kami-no-aisuru

just a quick little post to say that I’m not going to be doing the bald/bandana thing in-world on the 7th (today). I have plenty of sympathy for people who have/had cancer, quite a few members of my family are victims of it. I simply do not see how removing some pixels from some other pixels is really going to be of any help to anyone. I understand that some people want to show solidarity or go with the trend or “do the right thing” but I just don’t see the reason for myself. So I won’t be, and I’m sorry if that annoys people.

Well I don’t have much thats topical or deep. I have been shirking my business a bit but I’ve got to get to work with that. Because I spent waaaaaay too much money on hair lately. O_O

I did the Strawberry Fields hunt and then went back as Kamino because of the Primoptics certificate. I love love love love love Primoptics so much!  I have a couple pairs already and so wanted to get some for Kamino, because I keep glasses on him all the time. he’s got a glasses face. how hot is he?

and I’ve been trying to sort through inventory a lot and with the hair demos and such I’ve been spending a lot of time in my UFO. my private changing/photographing space is a big capsule shaped UFO.

It contains my photo booth, a little relaxing area, and the pimpest pose stand on the grid.

I don’t really have visitors up there, its kind of my own space you know?  But I’m up there minding my own business the other day and I see a green down arrow on the minimap. My house is open to whoever, so thats fine, but pretty soon the little down arrow turned into a dot, she was up there with me, wtf. She hovered outside the UFO just chatting. I basically told her she could look around the house but I didn’t want company. After like 3-4 minutes she said she’d go and then *finally* left. I was like _ this close to a kick/ban.  wtf.

so, like, if you visit people’s houses and roam around, remember that if it’s way the fudge up in the sky it’s probably private space.

Was tagged by the lovely and awesome Laleeta, so I’m answering. This is a good topic too isn’t it? Theres so little retention of new people it’s interesting to see what the people who have stuck around did when they were brand new and shiny.

Probably will be long, I tend to run off at the mouth

Well…. you see, I actually had signed up for SL awhile ago, maybe in 06? but I was at work (no broadband at home at the time) and it was confusing and I looked awful, so I deleted the program & closed that account. My friend got into SL because he tried it and found out about DJ’ing. He already knew how to do all of that stuff and honestly thought he could supplement his RL income XD  he’s good but not that good lol. He has already left SL, might have stayed longer if gambling was still ok. But he’s the one who convinced me to try it again and this time I stayed. Actually, I think he could have helped me a bit more than he did, but then he was only a month-old at the time himself.

I’ve been a blog reader for awhile, blogs of all kinds, so I decided it would be good to maybe do some research. So I like to think I was a fairly educated noob. I read a lot of Natalia’s tutorials and such, but looking back I know I was still kinda dumb. My friend told me to visit freebie island (see he didn’t even know the good free places) and he loaned (!) me 200L and with that I bought hair, Sirena, because I had read her tutorials. It didn’t take me too long to find blogs like Fab Free & Free Style and start picking up better things. I ended up buying L right away though, I’d say within a couple of days. For awhile I wanted to call L, Lira, because it took like 500 of them to do anything.

I started reading Ali’s blog because it was linked off one of the free ones, and found Primtionary through that, started going & learning to build that way. I was probably 3-4 months in or more before I went to the ivory tower XD.  I admired Ali because she was only using earned money to play, and I had caved and bought rounds of L every couple weeks or so.

And I got fed up with changing & organizing in sandboxes pretty early on. I found the Otherland group and decided to become a landowner when I was only a month old or so. Again, kind of backwards, because thats private estate, and now I own a parcel of the mainland but didn’t get that until just recently.

When I was new I only had the one friend, and he left pretty early on. So I was mostly quiet. I only had about a half dozen on my friend’s list for months. I shopped, did a little building & working on my house, and some exploring. It’s really only in the past few months of being in the Ch’know group that I’ve started being social in SL. I’ve been around long enough now that I’m known around the EGL community too and can be social there as well.

Some of the dumb things I’ve done:

I thought (and still kinda do! XD) particles were pretty and sparkly, so I spent like 200L on this pink particle explosion that would go off when I teleported in to places. I haven’t worn that annoyance in so long. FYI I always thought bling looked kinda stupid and it annoyed me that a lot of free jewelry came with it.

I was never a gesture tard because I can barely figure the damn things out. even the built in ones I was kinda clueless about for the longest time and I can only just get new ones to work, but I have no clues how to make them myself.

I’ve always used premade AO’s because the instructions for the custom ones are so long and confusing that it just made me feel dumb and I stopped trying. I graduated Magna cum laude, why am I so stupid now?

I’m a SLex virgin and I’m not even sure how that would work.  ?  animation balls I guess, but he’s got bits that go off? and everyone has bits that talk?   O_o   I’m not sure I’ll ever be ready for that. XD

I find roleplay to be kind of intimidating and maybe confusing. I cant’ get in the moment like that at all, and the whole situation seems absurd and I’d rather just laugh. I tend to stay far far away from where roleplaying goes on. I went to Doomed Ship one time because I heard it was really worth exploring. I read the instructions like 4 times, changed my tag to read Visitor and figured no one would disturb me but there were like 2 robot dudes just following me around trying to get me to be part of their story.  I guess I was supposed to say something in parenthesis but I didn’t know that and they wouldn’t shut up in IM’s…. so I went home and didn’t try to visit cool places with roleplayers again. (that was just a few weeks ago so I’m still a stupid noob I guess)

maybe because I was solitary and quiet (and found the deaddest sandbox I could) I didn’t see any actual griefing for months. I thought people might be exaggerating a little. But they’re not, I know now.

long post.  that’s how I started SL.  ^_^

Ye gods it’s late, but I’ve been meaning to post pictures of my house for a couple days and damnit I won’t sleep until I do. The typing may be jacked up because my typing skills go to crap when I’m this tired.

So this is my industrial pagoda. It’s really not all that industrial, just some rusty metal & rivets here and there. even the wood is rivety. I was seriously inspired by this place, and decided to borrow bits of it. After several false starts building a house, I think this is “the one” as it were.

The outside, courtyard area. That smallish thing on the bridge? That’s me.

Overview of the whole property, gazebo with dock, house, bridge over the stream, mountaintop deck, and lantern room off to the right.

The mountaintop deck. Theres a nice area to lounge in, with a fire by Mr Euler. Japanese flag & torii gate, tree by Organica

Into the Lantern Room.  It’s kind of a conservatory I guess. I started playing with transparancies on these pagoda sculpty roofs I made and this is what I ended up making, It’s supposed to be light.

The house is mostly two sets of two rooms stacked, and it has this to divide the two halves. This is my kind of bent interpretation of a zen garden

The grand entrance. The sculpty characters are Japanese Hiragana, it says Aisuru.

(btw, while I’m at it I’ve been meaning to put a little pronunciation guide in here. Aisuru=eye soo roo.  Kamino= kah mee noh)

The main living room, the furniture is too cool and by Aminom Marvin of Sculptomancy. if you need the best armchair ever I suggest you haul ass and get one. only $100L and scripted out the wazoo. 2 prims. I SAID TWO.

Above the living area is a sort of gallery. These are all Glyph Graves works. I have a bunch more but I don’t have the prim count to display them. Maybe I’ll rotate some out.  Theres another in the pond.

The other half of the house is a sort of bleh room (don’t know what to do with it!) theres a nifty scripted kotatsu in there now, above that is the bedroom.

And if you want to stop by to have a look around, try out the furniture, do some fishing or just hang, please do! Theres some nice pillows with poses all around the dock, the barge in the pond is from pillow talk, and the settee in the lantern room has some cute poses too. theres even a little clover in the courtyard with a surprise. ( I know how much y’all like taking pictures XD ) and it’s all open so just teleport on over and see what’s up.  if I’m around but not on the ground I’m probably working in the sky. Just IM me and I’ll come on down. My house is on the Stephen sim, let me know what you think!

WHAT KIND OF FUCKERY IS THIS?

I’ve been seeing posts about this Ruth Project all over the SL blogs and I guess it started with Alaska Metropolitan, the basic premise is that you take the shape of poor forlorn Ruth and make her look better. It’s interesting seeing people’s different takes on it, so I decided to give it a shot.

Ruth is actually a decent looking girl with the right skin and some accessories. People have pointed out her problems, too-long torso, short legs, man hands, linebacker shoulders-I’d add that her eyes are too far apart, but I think I made her pretty cute!

I tried to soften her up with waves in her hair, a floaty dress that tries to give the poor thing some hips, and delicate jewelry. The gloves are my attempt to downplay her giant hands, maybe not as successful as it could have been. XD

I think good ol’ Ruth is salvagable. I wonder if this experiment will lead to some people using her shape… ?

seems like everyone’s been having hunts lately. I’ve attended more hunts than I can count, and this week it’s my honor to actually be one of the vendors participating. All of the combined shops on Lloyd/Floyd (some of the biggest names in SL and some of the best designers, IMHO) are participating. Just go to Lloyd or Floyd on your map and you’re set! You’ll be looking for little gold clams (they’re cute!) and they’re filled with many things. It’s intended to be a “panty party” and everyone was supposed to make undies, socks and the like but some people have put stuff like hairdos and even a couch in thar. I contributed these lovely stockings

and if you’re in the Ch’know group you’ve already gotten the black pair. It’s a pretty fun hunt with some cute things to be had (I know how much some of you love lingerie) so go enjoy!

If you miss the hunt entirely, I intend to set my prize out as a dollarbie at my mainstore when the hunt is done.

everybody’s doing it!

RL:

I was a funeral director for 3 years. I’m not licensed anymore but I’ll be US certified for life.

My eyesight is pretty bad and I need really strong glasses. I’m happy they make the ultralight kind these days!

I’ve been in 3 car accidents (all my fault ) but it’s been a long time since I’ve had one. and I’ve never hurt anybody, including myself!

I’m crazy about the 80s! The music especially but also the fashion, pop culture, & counter culture.

I’m Christian! I stopped going to church when I was a teenager, but my overall faith hasn’t changed much. I’m really really liberal and open minded (kind of at odds I know) and I’ve had friends of every faith.

SL:

I’m always clicking on stuff to find out who made it. If you know me, chances are I’m clicking on yous!

I LOVE moving the camera around and looking at stuff. When I’m shopping or whatver and I’m mostly standing still I’m probably busy looking around with the camera.

I feel like fangirling all of the time because I’m now friends with people, when I only read their blogs and stuff before. and I worry that people might think I’m a creepy stalker person! (i’m not!)

It would be nice if I could find a real hangout. I spend a lot of time at home and most of the rest shopping. I go dancing when the Ch’know group calls :)  and theres a new place for EGL types but theres not many people there. I’d like a place to go when I’m bored I guess. With nice people.

Theres a lot of poseballs in the world that a single person cant’ use, I’d like to be able to use them sometimes.

so much happenings. I’ve thought about a million times that “I need to go post some of this stuff” but haven’t. I’ve been really busy in SL, it seems I’m always doing 18 things at once. Rebuilding my house has been a big priority, I think this is “the one” finally, after several fresh builds. I found a place that I took as my inspiration because it was so incredible and fit my aesthetic, it’s going to be in a sort of “industrial pagoda” style, with a little bit of cyber on the side. picture Blade Runner does residential… hopefully The build is turning out nice, and looks better than some of the schlocky crap I turned out for my house in the past couple months.

I’ve been trying to build a business. I got ahold of a little 512 on the mainland and decided the best use for it would be as a mainstore. I’ve made a separate blog for all businessy things & new releases and whatnot.

So pictures and such will be over there. YES I have several plans for new content and thats on the stove too, working with everything else. I did get the opportunity to make something for a hunt and that was fun but I just don’t think I’m all that great at clothing.

I had the opportunity to participate in the great bunny hunt at Silent Sparrow and managed (finally and after some foolhardy purchases) to find a Fog bunny. Inside was the Devana dress in the limited edition Fog color and according to the initial notecard, theres only 25 of these on the grid.

Getting to wear such a thing is a real honor, and of course it’s a beautiful dress.

I also went and got the new ER F-Type girl robot avatar. Theres been a lot of buzz about this over at SLU because the creator has been posting his progress. It’s a really stunning avatar that’s pretty unusual. And it’s mod, so it’s fully customizable (and encouraged!). I didn’t do a whole lot to mine but I did add a skirt on to it from an outfit I already had from Bare Rose. I made the color scheme to match the rocket jetpack (really nice!) sort of a blue purple like burning rocket fuel.

and OF COURSE I was busy with the CSR hunt, I took most of a day to do it! I’ll try to get pictures of my prizes and post them.

I’ve been neglecting my flickr too, will try to update that. I did get a couple pictures of the fog and also Katat0nik’s Malice dress (also limited) which I was so happy to get a chance to buy. Another lovely piece for my wardrobe which is being taken over by Kata. I have a plan to do a Alice in Wonderland tableau featuring her Alice dress. That will be on flickr.

Started playing Tiny Empires. It seems ok so far. It’s fans are… rabid to say the least. Is it wrong to only want to play something because eventually it will deem you to be a princess?

Also I’ve been thinking a bit about relationships. It’s really nice that so many people I know are finding someone to be with in SL, but it does make me wonder about myself. I guess it’s a true statement about my personality that I can’t seem to do the “hooking up” thing in any world, real or virtual. I didn’t really expect SL to be different because personalities are the same really but sometimes I get a bit lonely, and get reminded of it when seemingly everyone is getting hitched. I’m not expressing this right at all I dont’ think. I’m so happy for people, I really am. But it does remind me every time that romantic relationships are just something I can’t ever seem to acquire. The other night while I was wearing the Fog gown I decided it would be nice to go dancing and hit up some places on the advice of the Ch’know people. I couldn’t even find a dance partner. It just gets a little depressing sometimes.

One of the posters on SLU does a rating scale. You send him some pictures and he rates you on his slut-o-meter. sounds more mysogynist than it is, point of fact, he is actually very sweet and complimentary, whether he gives a low or high score he always finds the best points to say. So I finally decided to do it and sent him a dozen or so picture, some were quite risque (not so much my usual but something I’ve been exploring a bit more lately) and my rating came in!

“Beautiful pictures.  I think the geisha one is my favorite. You have beautiful, fine features and eyes that a man could lose himself in for hours.  You have an expressive, inviting personality that we find attractive, and not at distant.  You are every bit the lady when the situation calls for it, yet you are not at all inhibited when the time is right.  Based on these photos, I am giving you a 7.9 on the Official Trout Index of Important Stuff.  You know when to let your wild side loose, and when to rein it in, and in either case, you have the ability to drive men wild with desire.  Congratulations and shame on you!  you are a bit of a slut, but only in the very best possible way.”

some of the pictures I turned in are already on my flickr, some will not be released except to very special people (later? maybe) or for lots of cash. here’s some nice, somewhat safe, ones.