Been a while, hasn't it?
Nov. 7th, 2008 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyfishyNaNoWriMo has begun and The Me has plowed into it, so my time inworld has been a little more intermittent.
No sooner did I reduce the number of prims on my house than I ended up adding to them by building a sort of greenhouse space on the roof--a few transparent prims for the walls and ceiling and a rather nice little blue tile for the floor. I added a few tapestry chairs by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jenshikami that I simply adore, and I might see about adding some plants or something. It's become a favorite place for Beginning and I to enjoy each other's company, especially now that she's abandoned her apartment at Quantum Fields and moved in with me. I created a Group for the pair of us called This Most Curious Love Affair and deeded my little parcel to it, so now she has a proper place to call Home.
Alas, the upgrades have made it harder for us to meet. The OnRez/SL combination that I previously used has been rendered useless after OnRez did an update, and it seems that the only way for us to get by is on parallel iterations of the SL viewer, but only for relatively short periods. I'm still tweaking the settings to see if I can work it so we can at least meet face to face, if not in perfect graphic detail.
We dressed up as Dream and Death from The Sandman for Halloween. As I said last year, in a world where you can be just about anything, the notion of dressing up as something for Halloween takes on an interesting quality.
(The Group titles, which I left visible, are the titles I gave each of us for This Most Curious Love Affair. A tip of the sculptie hat to Hamlet Au, for the inspiration.)
The outfit Beginning is wearing originally belonged to me. I checked to see if there was perhaps a landmark in the folder for it so she could obtain it for herself and was delighted to discover that the outfit itself was transferrable, so I gave it to her, since I can trust she will give it back to me should I have need of it. (I still do revert to girlshape now and then.) The outfit I'm wearing is kludged from a few different items in my Inventory, since nothing at Bare Rose quite looked like what I had in mind. (The results are not perfection, but I decided they would suffice.)
The ankh is my own creation, an uploaded texture from Wikipedia (complete with transparency!) that I applied to a simple prim. I also did my first proper experiment with making my own eyes and was quite pleased with the result.
Granted, completely black eyes are easy enough to do, but the slight arc of white to define where the iris should be worked surprisingly well. I may do more experiments with eye textures in future.
We went to the Halloween party hosted by Sophrosyne Stenvaag (sophrosyne_sl) and made use of the slow dance in the corner before the crashmonster pounced on the pair of us. I returned for a bit and deliberately crossed the Police Line Do Not Cross tape that had been set up around some chalk outlines and pulled out a dance I keep in my back pocket. Eventually, I departed and The Me took to preparing for her noveling marathon scheduled to begin in a matter of hours.
In case you were wondering about my thoughts regarding That Price Increase On A Type Of Land I Wasn't Even Aware Existed Until Just About Now, surprisingly, I do have some, but I'll save that for another entry. Because it touches into a lot of things that bother me people's expectations of Second Life, and this entry is long enough without a bonus rant.
No sooner did I reduce the number of prims on my house than I ended up adding to them by building a sort of greenhouse space on the roof--a few transparent prims for the walls and ceiling and a rather nice little blue tile for the floor. I added a few tapestry chairs by
jenshikami that I simply adore, and I might see about adding some plants or something. It's become a favorite place for Beginning and I to enjoy each other's company, especially now that she's abandoned her apartment at Quantum Fields and moved in with me. I created a Group for the pair of us called This Most Curious Love Affair and deeded my little parcel to it, so now she has a proper place to call Home.Alas, the upgrades have made it harder for us to meet. The OnRez/SL combination that I previously used has been rendered useless after OnRez did an update, and it seems that the only way for us to get by is on parallel iterations of the SL viewer, but only for relatively short periods. I'm still tweaking the settings to see if I can work it so we can at least meet face to face, if not in perfect graphic detail.
We dressed up as Dream and Death from The Sandman for Halloween. As I said last year, in a world where you can be just about anything, the notion of dressing up as something for Halloween takes on an interesting quality.
(The Group titles, which I left visible, are the titles I gave each of us for This Most Curious Love Affair. A tip of the sculptie hat to Hamlet Au, for the inspiration.)
The outfit Beginning is wearing originally belonged to me. I checked to see if there was perhaps a landmark in the folder for it so she could obtain it for herself and was delighted to discover that the outfit itself was transferrable, so I gave it to her, since I can trust she will give it back to me should I have need of it. (I still do revert to girlshape now and then.) The outfit I'm wearing is kludged from a few different items in my Inventory, since nothing at Bare Rose quite looked like what I had in mind. (The results are not perfection, but I decided they would suffice.)
The ankh is my own creation, an uploaded texture from Wikipedia (complete with transparency!) that I applied to a simple prim. I also did my first proper experiment with making my own eyes and was quite pleased with the result.
Granted, completely black eyes are easy enough to do, but the slight arc of white to define where the iris should be worked surprisingly well. I may do more experiments with eye textures in future.
We went to the Halloween party hosted by Sophrosyne Stenvaag (
sophrosyne_sl) and made use of the slow dance in the corner before the crashmonster pounced on the pair of us. I returned for a bit and deliberately crossed the Police Line Do Not Cross tape that had been set up around some chalk outlines and pulled out a dance I keep in my back pocket. Eventually, I departed and The Me took to preparing for her noveling marathon scheduled to begin in a matter of hours.In case you were wondering about my thoughts regarding That Price Increase On A Type Of Land I Wasn't Even Aware Existed Until Just About Now, surprisingly, I do have some, but I'll save that for another entry. Because it touches into a lot of things that bother me people's expectations of Second Life, and this entry is long enough without a bonus rant.
