Winter Sun

It’s been a few months since Flutter and I spent much time, activated, in SL. In the last few weeks, the human has allowed us to be ourselves, again (thank you, human!). As we do, when we’ve been denied existence for any length of time, we go…shopping! We’ve hit all the best regular events, and are already adorned in some of our newly acquired, comfy loot. We arrived, last evening, at a destination that mainly sells tattoos, looking for that rare, new piece of good ink to fit on our already well-inked body…

… we didn’t find that rare piece, but we noticed, outside the store, the ice-coated trees, in a clear, crisp, winter day…

… we love stores that the owners have gone to the extra effort of beautifully landscaping, and we often roam around in them, taking pictures…

… there was a very fine, slow fall of snow, there was no wind…

… we were warm and cosy in our new fur jacket (if I’m warm, Flutter is too, by the magical osmosis of our psychic connection)…

… we climbed down a few steep banks, heading back toward the sea we’d initially arrived beside…

… all the while bathed in the light of the winter sun.

Ship’s Ai

About a decade ago, the human (so, I, too…) read a couple of very good SF books by Ann Leckie. They were about a (space) battleship with an AI (she worked in conjunction with a human captain, but, basically, controlled every aspect of the ship)…

… the AI not only monitored every function of the ship, but also moved among the crew in the form of ‘ancillaries’, which were mind wiped humans (can’t remember why, perhaps they were criminals?) who were now controlled by the AI. These ancillaries were highly trained soldiers, as well as negotiators/psychologists/experts in human interaction…

… they not only monitored the crew, but fought as soldiers, as well as did covert operations on planets… the ship AI could see through all of their eyes at the same time, as well as control a massive warship. Due to treachery, the ship, the AI, and all her ancillaries were destroyed…

… all except one, who was on some covert mission (I think, can’t really remember). That single creature used to have the mind of a warship, the eyes of a thousand others like her… now she is alone…

… we LOVED this concept! We would have made the ancillaries androids, not humans, and we felt that the story, though with an astonishing concept, was far too slow and timid with the main character, but all kudos to Ann Leckie for that fabulous concept, which has stayed in our imaginations long after we put the slightly disappointing books down…

… we are drawn to tales of powerful female protagonists, seemingly vulnerable woman who are, actually, mind-boggelingly powerful. We were thinking of this character when we did these images. Our girl isn’t human, she’s a synthetic being, possibly immortal, but she now has no access to the massive resources she once had, and must remain hidden while she tracks down those responsible for the murder of 99.9% of herself, and all the humans she loved, especially her captain. She looks like a young woman, but she has more skills than 100 humans ten times older than she looks… and those looks are totally deceptive, as, physically, she is already 90 years old. Of course, she can kick your ass, and the ass of everyone you know, but she’d rather not hurt anyone she doesn’t need to (:

Exquisit

I adore these images…

… they are about as perfectly balanced as I think I’ve so far gotten my Mj works…

… the backgrounds are beautiful, and very consistent…

… the young woman are straight out of fantasy…

… and their gowns and jewellery are…

… exquisit.

New Apartment at Hangars Liquides

Flutter and I took posession of our new apartment, in the rebuilt Hangars Liquides, the other day…

… it is more spacious than our previous HL apartment was…

… the style is instantly recognisable as Djehan Kidd’s amazing work

… of course, the first thing we did was put up pictures. We chose cyber-influenced work to match the surroundings…

… we had a coffee break… well, Flutter doesn’t actually drink coffee, but she enjoys the smell, and feels left out if I don’t pour her a cup, too…

… then continued our work…

… we are very happy with the look/style we have created, here…

… no home of ours is complete without a generous helping of cuteness, of course…

… we’ve already, since I shot this post, made some changes… this glass enclosure now has one of Djehan’s gorgeous bathtubs in it, and the plants have been reshuffled, just leaving one in with the tub…

… the bedroom is tiny, but very cosy, like a cabin in a spaceship (:

Magnificent Opulence

I’ve been pushing the level of adornment in these images…

… Mj does rich adornment very well, these days… not so long ago, the adornment was often just visual noise, if you looked closely, it was just mashed-up pixels, roughly approximating stuff… now it’s actual jewels, and embroidery, and fabulous fabric textures. Mj has also made very impressive advances at representing hands… it still makes creepy mistakes, but, more often, gets it pretty right…

… I love this graphic style, kind of Mucha-like, but not cartoony/drawn…

… these woman are proud rulers and nobles…

… the queens and princesses of wondrous fantasy realms…

… where good and evil are clearly defined…

… and they don’t ever have to experience…

… gutless sneak-attacks from cowardly, murderous, terrorist psychopaths.

Fantasy Style

I continue (in Mj) to create these astonishingly rich fantasy creatures…

… the wonderful backgrounds, the intricate detail…

… and magnificent opulence…

… their beautiful faces, the rich fabrics…

… and gorgeous jewels and metals…

… and their amazing manes of snow-white, just keep me going ‘wow!’.

Imaginary Nobility

These are the next progression from my ‘Fierce Beauties’… still the wonderful, white tresses, but more conventionally ‘beautiful’, and less ‘fierce’…

… but these beauties are lavishly be-jewelled…

… and dressed in the most sumptuous splendour…

… they could only belong to an elite class…

… fabulously adorned…

… imaginary nobility…

… I am super-pleased with this progression of images…

… and absolutely ADORE this one! She is, by far, the sexiest creature I have so far created with Mj (:

Fierce Beauty

I started developing a concept of albino-esque, warrior beauties. It took about a week to start getting this level of results… Mj doesn’t understand ‘albino’, with the same, unfathomable reasoning that it can’t grasp the concept of ‘black lipstick’. Anyway, after many prompt experiments, it started giving me these beauties…

… I’m sure you’ve gathered, by now, I adore this kind of imagery of strong, even fiercely, beautiful woman…

… non-conventional beauty, and all-the-more alluring for the fact…

… my mind spins entire narratives around these wonderful images…

… whole stories of unbroken loyalty and eternal love.