While she is used to it, Seraphim never gets used to it… the constant change that happens to her in SL… as she continues her current, solitary roamings…

… to places like Pendle Hill, which is richly dark but, currently, spoilt due to it’s being filled with cheesey Halloween stuff… Seraphim managed to find a few places, there, to pose for some images without the cheese…

… and intends to visit again, when the place is less filled with commercialised ‘scary’ cartoons…

… continuing the lighthouse/wrecks/beach/birds theme, but less ‘dark’, she visited Glenrosa…

… which has some lovely photographic settings…

… but, all the time, she was painfully aware of the fact her two companions, Tee and Evie, whom she would normally be accompanied by, are not with her, and she has not seen them, now, for months… she especially feels Evie’s absence, as Evie was like Seri’s sweet little shadow, always there, even when Tee was not…

… the little, friendly neighbourhood that had suddenly sprung up around her in Jormundgandr, is, just as suddenly, gone… one neighbour has moved somewhere else, and her friends Pandume and Shadow have not been at their home for months… Seraphim sits in the bus stop on their property, with it’s advertisement for her gallery, and can’t help thinking about the constant change in her life… she reads, in peoples profiles, stories of wonderful, long relationships/friendships, and of vibrant communities, and she wonders how these people avoid the state of constant flux that is her SL reality?

 

Seraphim finds the courtyard at Veyot’s ‘Another Town’ to be conducive to some meditative callisthenics…

… whilst her mind was a calm pool, her thoughts, ripples, spreading slowly outward and dissolving, she was aware of how Veyot’s little project here seemed to be thriving, how it had developed since her last visit…

… though T’ai Chi is a form of meditative callisthenics, it is also a slowed down practice for fighting technique…

… something Seri is no stranger to, having spent thousands of years of her long life constantly fighting forces that felt threatened by an immortal, alien female…

… till she decided to just fade from the battle, realising that she, alone, would never defeat those forces, unless she slaughtered millions of males with megalomaniacle, hegemonic obsessions, and, by then, she had formed a liking for all the other humans, the ones who weren’t assholes, the powerless ones, the creative ones…

… the ones who would have been horrified by a lone, slight alien girl destroying millions and millions of other humans, even if they were assholes…

… so Seri removed herself from all that, and opened a gallery in Jormungandr.

 

 

Seraphim loves ‘random dialling’ her gate, and leaping through that liquid-blue portal…

… a leap into some unknown location…

… is it safe, here?…

… what are the locals like?… are they nearby?…

… as the portal evaporates into plasma-mist…

… and the tell-tale glare of arrival dissipates from the gate…

… she walks into the new place she has found…

… never knowing what she will find here.

Seraphim went to the Pose Fair today. By chance, one of the first stalls she visited was the Bauhaus Movement stall… Seraphim was totally blown away by the quality of the poses there…

… so much so, she bought 59 of them! These are some of the coolest, best made poses she has ever seen… not a slutty/cheesy pose among them, no clipping of body parts or bizarre limb angles, just gorgeous, strong, fabulous poses…

… Seri predicts hours of fun ahead…

… playing with her new poses (:

… of Seraphim Placebo…

… Seraphim started her day swapping her combat boots for sleek heels…

… and a tuxedo jacket, white shirt and black bow-tie. Feeling very elegant, she visited her little satellite gallery in Pink Lady Castle… it has had exactly zero visitors… Seri has never seen anyone at Pink Lady Castle!… perhaps her first rented gallery-space venture wasn’t in the best place?…

… after visiting a few shops/shopping events, Seraphim bought a new backdrop for her studio, which has some nice poses, and may be useful some day…

… she also bought a flying whale!… a gorgeous, tree-encrusted flying whale. If you stand at the edge of Seraphim’s gate platform, the whale will pass very close in her stately perambulation… if you click on the ladder hanging off her side, you can ride her…

… Seri also bought herself a very cute little bolero jacket…

… the colours of which she fiddled with whilst her new flying whale circumnavigated the sky above her fantasy garden…

… Seri loves her fantasy garden, it’s beauty always soothes her kind, alien heart.

Seraphim finds herself alone, again, these days… so she has taken up her old, solitary wandering…

… which found her, once again, exploring the fabulously BladeRunner-esqe Hangars Liquides…

… where she wanders through the grunge and the rain, just another stranger in a strange land…

… thinking about how ephemeral everything is, especially in SL…

… how you never know what will be changed/gone tomorrow, who you will suddenly never see again…

… how you really can only rely on yourself…

… as Seraphim does.