‘Hmmm… dreaming I’m waiting in a hallway’…

… ‘aww, your’e in my dream, too, sweetheart’…

… ‘how do you know you’re not in mine?’, she coyly replied…

… ‘that’s a very valid question, my little Lepidoptera’, I answered…

… ‘perhaps we’re really here?’, she then asked…

… ‘yes, I think we are.’…

… ‘It’s a very nice dream, if that’s what it is.’ She said…

… ‘It sure is, my little love.’…

… ‘oh, look, here comes the end…’

It’s been years since I got so desperate for new, interesting locations, that I played around with photographic prop backdrops. This staircase is something that always draws me to it in builds, so when I saw it was on sale for half price, recently, I went and grabbed it, and we set it up on my blank-slate sky platform. I added one of my Midjourney works for the backdrop to the backdrop…

… and proceeded to play…

… the world has turned strange, weird things are afoot, these are troublous times…

… it’s best just to go with the flow…

… make sure you are as fit and healthy as you can be…

… freaking out about the magnitude of what’s happening is counter-productive…

… wow!… shouldn’t have looked back…

… it’s ok to freak out a little bit…

… then just get it together…

… and move forward…

… what’s next?

FlutterBye and I visited ‘Pandora‘, yesterday…

… this is a lush, verdant, alien planetary surface…

… the gorgeous flora put us in mind of a sci-fi Rousseau painting…

… apart from the really beautiful foliage, the place seems to be some kind of convention centre…

… which is set in these alien gardens…

… there was more to the sim, but it was one of those ‘members only past here’ deals, and those just annoy us because they instantly change the situation from ‘come and see our beautiful sim’, to ‘come and pay to see our beautiful sim’.

We visited ‘Between the Worlds‘, this morning. This is a gallery of AI-generated art…

… this is, by far, the coolest such venue we have seen in SL, since AI art made everyone an ‘artist’, and some of the best AI art we’ve seen here, too…

… there is a lot of lady-boy imagery, here (sorry… non-binary) which is fine if that’s your speed, but I prefer my pretty girls to be girls…

… images like these are totally my speed! As someone who was addicted to producing AI art for a year or so, I appreciate that these images are more than just someone using an AI art generator as a paint-by-numbers exercise…

… this was my favourite… really gorgeous… this is, for me, the epitome of the level of AI art you can create, if you put the work in; it’s not cliched, there’s a story here, and the whole thing is beautifully cohesive…

… wonderful stuff…

… the gallery, itself, which is advertised as a ‘hangout space’, is really pretty.

We recently visited Hillvale Beach…

… now we know why the Baja Coast and Hillvale builds all look so similar… they are all part of the same real estate venture…

… we particularly liked the well-signposted rentals, here; no nasty, sudden, unexpected evictions…

… we love this Fallout/Bio-Shock vibe…

… these are beautifully crafted builds…

… at Hillvale Beach you can access the beach via a path between rentals, without fear of petty, spiteful evictions that don’t give you any time to work out where the fucking line you crossed was… which is always nice…

… the sky, here, makes me think of Dhalgren (by Samuel Delaney), not that this particular celestial display occurs in that story, but strange things do happen in the sky, in a nameless city where reality collides with… well, with something…

… I suspect genuine design skill behind these builds…

… none of them has a single miss-placed element, and they all form a wonderfully cohesive whole.