I often wake up, in the small hours of the morning, and I’m out in my garden…
… usually near one of the two statues that actually possess power…
… they use their power to dress me the way they prefer me to be dressed…
… it’s always strangely warm, with odd wind currents that only affect certain areas, causing the autumnal leaves to constantly eddy around me…
… it’s strangely soothing…
… feeling the warmth, and the gentle caress of the wind and the leaves…
… my mind drifts, half-awake…
… back through the millenia…
… to when I first came to Earth, as a child, and found humans to be an abundant, easy source of sustenance. It would be another thousand years before I stopped feeding on humans, and learned to hide among them, in plain sight. I’m glad those days are over, but my statues don’t seem to understand that, and continue to whisper in my head, about blood and hunting.
One of my favourite SL clothing brands is the eponymously named Belzebubble…
… whose super-cute logo is a back-the-front B, back-to-back with a B, and the B’s have little devil horns…
… her clothing is clearly not aimed at people who dress like me, more the ‘Barbie-bimbo’ crowd, it has very bright colours, most of which I don’t actually like because they are too bright, but I love the white, black and the pink, which is one of the prettiest pinks in SL. All her stuff comes with wonderful HUD’s that give you a really good range of options. I love her entire brand collateral, it is totally consistent, bright and cute, her advertising panels are like frames from a comic…
… her gear has gorgeous fabric textures…
… but what I love about all her stuff is that it fits my Maitreya Lara Petite body perfectly, almost BOM-perfectly. Because of that excellent fit, it goes under a wide range of clothes that I wear. I often wear BB gear under my jackets…
… and when I’m wearing little short skirts, my BB Alpha Panties are a must. In this set, though, I’m wearing my new ‘Kioke’ bodysuit, so I don’t need the Alphas. The thing that totally makes the BB brand, for me, though, is dealing with Belzebubble herself, when you have problems or questions, she always replies to requests for help, and she’s always lovely. I’ve never met her, but I really like her. That’s why I’m doing this little Belzebubble post, as a way of saying ‘thanks’ for your wonderful customer service, Belzebubble (:
I decided to hang a retrospective installation, featuring some of my digital portrait paintings. Portraits have always been my favourite theme, both for painting, and photography. People who know me will know the work I’ve been showing the last year or so is quite different from what I used to do. I have two digital styles, one I call my ‘comic’ style… I’ve always been interested in sequential art, and, a lot of my early digital paintings, which I started doing around 2012, are in this style…
… they are potential panels for that stunning graphic novel I never did, because I simply could not satisfy my own inner critic about the quality of my work…
… my other style is my ‘photorealistic’ style, where I actually had to learn when to stop polishing, because the paintings end up being so like photographs, it kind of defeats the actual painting process… I still want people to go ‘oh, that’s a painting!’…
… my earlier stuff was pretty dark… dark, but gorgeous, and was always about very scary girls…
… by 2016, even my ‘comic’ work was looking pretty realistic. In 2015-2016, I did a lot of Suicide Girl fan art. My work was easily some of the best on their fan art page, but hardly anyone ‘liked’ them, because I painted portraits, not nudes…
… I also paint singers I adore, and babes from films. These images are just 8 of my paintings from 2013 to 2018. I’ve done a whole lot more. The choice, for these, was to start as early in my life as a digital painter as I could find, the rest was actually dictated by what was easiest to find on my chaotic, two terabyte hard drive (:
Yesterday, I visited Finian’s Dream. I’ve never been here before, I have no idea why, because this is my favourite kind of sim…
… a beautiful, ancient forest, filled with mist and moonlight…
… before long I heard the whirr of tiny wings, and these two gorgeous little Fae began following me. I deliberately didn’t turn around, because I didn’t want to scare them off…
… but I needn’t have worried. Because I’m not human, but not Demon, either, they were very curious about what I was, eventually working up the courage to ask me…
… I told them I was from another planet, from another star-system, and that I was 4000 years old. Although they didn’t seem to grasp my interplanetary origin, they were delighted to hear I was almost as old as them, and they started calling me ‘sister’, which really made me happy…
… we came to this bridge, and they grew very agitated, warning me not to cross it. When I asked why…
… they said something terrible lived in the clearing on the other side. They begged me not to keep going, but I assured them I hadn’t lived 4000 years because I was defenceless, and that I’d be alright. They weren’t convinced, and kept pleading with me to stop, but I assured them I’d be fine, and told them I’d come back and visit them soon…
… in the clearing I was immediately buzzed by this dazzling little, luminous Sprite…
… these creatures are more like me than like Fae, they are connected to universal energy, so, more like space creatures than Earth creatures. I felt her scan my mind, and suddenly she was talking to me in my mothers language. She told me the Fae were frightened of her because they couldn’t understand her, but that she never hurt them. I could tell this was true, and promised to explain that truth to the little Fae, next time I saw them. The Sprite wished me luck on my travels. Coming from a Sprite, that was more than just words; in all likelihood my travels should be very interesting, in future…
… I had a wonderful time in this mystical forest. There is a village, and a castle, full of lovely art, but, for me, this forest is the best thing about Finian’s Dream.
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