Today I dressed up in Helena Stringer’s pointy Dreadicorn hair and wandered over to the sim of Skye Neist. I didn’t get to explore much. Truth be told, I lied to myself that I had time before work to take a photo or two, but I was actually kind of wrong. I didn’t have time for that, and ended up short-changing both the photos and my job (*cough* traffic sure was bad today). Still, it was nice to take a mental journey before heading into Normal Land, and this sim was very evocative!

I actually dressed this way so that I could be Gidge’s polar opposite. She bought the white version of this Milk Motion Collabor88 dress, so I had to go demonic. See her pretty crying angelface over here.

Dress: (Milk Motion) lace dress – raspberry
Hair: The Stringer Mausoleum Dreadicorn in Rangitoto color, at Hair Fair
Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Flutter boots in raven
Earrings: Lassitude & Ennui Macabre jewelry in silver and red
Eyes: MIASNOW eyes – dead blood
Skin: MIASNOW skin – devildoll
Nails: Mandala takara nail / silver
Hair base: booN vine shaved hair base in black

I went down to Rougham town (it was in the destination guide),
and when I was down in Rougham town, I saw a man astride
a dragon built of wheels and cogs, snorting industrial steam
a gentleman flying without any wings, weaving industrial dreams.

I came to photo my avatar there, wearing this dress from Wishbox
Fancying to myself that I was marrying an industrial gothic, um, … fox.
That rhymes with box, and in Second Life, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch.
But my rhymes are falling apart and so I bid you all a fair…um. Yeaaaah.

More photos of pretty Rougham and the outfit credits behind the cut.

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A friend and I had a discussion recently about how much or little Real Life to share in Second Life. She mentioned that back in the day, people warned her to keep all RL details private, and she carefully did. Over time SL became much different, with more than a little bleed between the toon and the reality. For both of us, our RL selves are far too frank to hide any of it, though.

We’ve both had experiences with people who roleplay their real lives through their avatars, which confused us mightily. Why lie about real life when it’s easy to say, “I’d like privacy, please!”

A different friend of mine switched genders to play her avatar, and mentioned to me once that it’s tremendously difficult for male avatars to get any peace at all about their real lives from inquisitive women. Yet another friend switched genders to play a female avatar, and said he has always been able to keep his RL private. I guess there are so many women in our virtual world that men are a rarity, and more curiosity is engendered by them?

I really wish that the avatars who want to keep their real lives secret could, so that instead of building up a trail of lies, they can simply enjoy the game.

At any rate, my avatar is lookin’ all role-playish in her new hair (fashionably Dead, at Hair Fair) and outfit (tee*fy from Collabor88) while visiting the Kingdom of Sand. Full disclosure: I don’t look a jot like Acha.

Hair: fashionably Dead Venus – Brunette 3
Makeup / eyes: Plastik Soul Ink reloaded in Juna tint, Vaele Coll Galaxia-Nala prim eyes
Skin: Plastik Aleria – Nomad skin
Tattoo: Plastik Haila Tattoo
Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Enbroidered mesh boots in brown
Camisole/shorts: Tee*fy bella and heather ruffled outfit, at Collabor88
Piercings: Ellabella Homeostasis 3
Armband: Bliensen + MaiTai industrial revolution
Horns: Tekeli-li Efreet, comes with the Tekeli-li hair