Today, Seraphim visited the latest Drune iteration. The first thing she noticed was her profile picture, without her permission, up on the over-head display… she couldn’t care less, but found the lack of etiquette pretty disappointing…

… the sim was, like previous Drune sims, a glory of neon eye-candy…

… also, like the previous Drunes, there was the juvenile obsession with sexual themes…

… as though the sim was built by genius 13 year-old boys…

… whose sophisticated visual aesthetic was continually over-ridden by their desire to masturbate…

… but, when she thought about it, Seri had to admit that this is a fairly common phenomenon in SL…

… and, that if you have to have sims built by wankers…

… the wankers might as well be genius 13 year-old boys.

Yesterday, Seraphim visited the ‘Liaison Collaborative’ event, and bought this gorgeous ‘Anita’ sweater, by ‘Little Fox’, which goes perfectly with her new ‘Astralia’ pants, like they were made for each other. The picture in the display for the sweater showed the models wearing some very nice pants, which Seraphim coveted, so she TP’d to the ‘Little Fox’ showroom… where she discovered that, not only did she already own the pants, but she’d been here, before, possibly to buy the pants, and that, next to the showroom, was the Fox Road sim, which Seraphim had explored, and adored, previously…

… once again, she was drawn to explore this empty, artful sim…

… Seraphim loves these arty, set-like builds…

… where the builder has set up tableaux that can be used as props/backgrounds…

… she finds this one strangely poignant, with it’s implication of hasty abandonment…

… the whole sim, of course, feels as though it is in the aftermath of some mass-extermination event… Seraphim quite likes these empty sims.

Seraphim visited Ethereal, today. One of the first things she saw, after noticing the gorgeous colours…

… was this absolutely adorable greeter-bot…

… it was by far the cutest bot Seraphim has seen, so cute she wished it was a real avi, so she could tell it how sweet it was…

… what Seraphim saw of the Ethereal sim was a psychedelic kaleidoscope of colour and gorgeous, alien foliage…

… it was all like a faerie’s dream…

… very soothing and pretty.

After reading Alexa’s recent post on ChatuChak, yesterday, Seraphim decided to have a look, too…

… you arrive in one of those colourful, Asian markets, where trains run dangerously close through the marketplace…

… following the rails takes you out of the first market, which is mostly manufactured items, into the woods, and onto a bridge, where the train appears to have stalled before a tunnel…

… just before the bridge, there is a path down through the rocks and trees…

… that brings you to the equally colourful produce market, on the docks…

… which are piled with delicious, fresh produce…

… birds wheel about the docks… there are no people… this gives the place the feel of having been suddenly deserted, like, only minutes/hours before…

… Seraphim wondered what could have caused everyone to vanish… was she walking amongst an invisible, deadly viral contagion? Not being human, and immune to anything deadly to humans, she wasn’t too worried… was the place highly radioactive? She didn’t have a gieger counter on her, so couldn’t check… again, radiation isn’t something she worries about… the birds seemed active enough. Anyway, she got some nice pictures (: