Every morning, Seraphim awakes in her spacious bedroom. She actually doesn’t need to sleep, but, over the millennia, she’s taught herself to do so, because she dreams when she sleeps, and she loves that…

… she springs out of bed, totally refreshed…

… and bounds into another day on Earth…

… her bedroom is decorated with some of her favourite art. After rising, on every third day, she heads for her beautiful, silver refrigerator…

… for a meal…

… she plays the same game, every third day, which is how often she needs to feed, where she says ‘Hmmm, what shall I have this morning?’… but, it’s always the same… synthetic blood, made in her secret facilities around the world, synthetic blood that fulfils all her predatory instincts, and keeps her from preying on soft humans…

… once that’s done, she heads for her lounge…

… where she is greeted by her kitty-in-a-balloon, and her constantly sleeping, though telepathically communicating, sphynx cat… these guys make her morning with their love, and she adores them. She usually gets dressed in the lounge.

Seraphim read this post, this morning, and decided to visit Lost Unicorn, somewhere she’s never been, before… she was instantly smitten with the place, and surprised she’s never heard of it, before…

… the lush foliage has a predominantly green/purple palette, which is gorgeous. As someone who creates her own environments, Seraphim could see how much work has been put into sourcing the various elements of this wonderful environment…

… whilst photographing the above scene, Seri posed herself, then spent a few minutes getting the camera angle just right, she was, literally, just about to click the shutter, when two huge, bare-chested SL males (the male equivalents of the ballon-breasted barbies) blundered past her, and shunted her off the path… it’s moments like that that she wishes she could just kick the shit out of other avi’s, because their incredible arrogance/sense of entitlement just disgusts her… anyway, she can’t, so she didn’t, and she had to spend a few more minutes getting the shot right…

… as well as gorgeous foliage, Lost Unicorn has lovely lighting effects…

… the whole place is very beautiful, and quite wonderfully fantasial…

… a photographers delight. Seri could see herself dressing up and coming back here for some kind of fantasy shoot…

… as well as beautiful plants and light, there is also a lot of falling water…

… it’s very much the setting for Elves and Fae.

Seraphim visited Snow Falls, today…

… it’s very pretty…

… and achingly cute…

… heartwarmingly so…

… the sea…

… and the sky are beautiful.

Seraphim went on her first few jaunts of the year, today. First she went to Veyot’s ‘Lost Luggage and Unclaimed Freight‘ shed, in Bhaga…

… this is one of Veyot’s whimsical little projects…

… a small, two-room shed, beside a rail yard…

… filled with disparate objects…

… then she went to the gallery in Montmartre, and hung the third of her current ‘Dream’ series. After her meeting with Nicholai Laval, a few months ago, which she posted about here, Seri has barely heard from Nicholai, in fact, Nicholai ignored Seri’s last message, about a month ago. While Seri still clearly has rez rights in the gallery, the gallery remains unfurnished, contrary to Nicholai’s assertion she would furnish it, and Nicholai seems, now, totally uninterested in the whole thing. Seri has stopped telling Nicholai whenever she hangs anything new, and expects, any time, for it all to be returned to her inventory* with no explanation, and that will be the end of that odd, typically SL, collaboration with a stranger who seemed to want to be a friend.

*… and that’s exactly what happened, two days later. Seraphim wonders if SL is really filled with dysfunctional people, or if she just runs into more of them than most avi’s do?

Seraphim loved her few days wearing animesh hair, and it felt strange going back to static hair, but she absolutely didn’t miss the clunky, simple, crappy AO that wearing the hair necessitated she use…

… she had constantly pined for her ‘Miriam’ AO, which is her all-time fave AO, and, basically, is ‘her’… she loved the walk and the run that came with the hair’s AO, but hated the simple, limited, crappy, stands, and the fact there were zero controls with the AO, it over-rode her Lumipro poses, and made her ‘hug’ AO useless, and the only way to turn it off, was to remove her ponytail!…

… she totally feels like herself, again, now that she is, once more, rocking her lovely ‘Miriam’ AO. She has sent a notecard to Vista Barnes, expressing her un-impressment at the feebleness of the, nearly, L$1000 AO that drove the animesh hair, and it’s seeming slapped-together-ness…

… she expressed her love of the walk/run animations, but said she was less than impressed with the rest, and hopes there will be a vastly more sophisticated update, soon…

… she’s only ever dealt with him, once, before, years ago, and, although he was reasonable back then, she has no idea what several years of massive financial gain will have done to his ego…

… she hopes he won’t be a typical SL male asshole about it*.

*Seraphim has no doubt there are fine male avi’s in SL, she even knows one… but, sadly, 99% of the males she has met in SL have been appalling representatives of the potential of their sex, possibly 50% of those have been appalling representatives of the potential of the human race… so she has pretty low expectations.

*Update: Seri received a perfectly civil, and very informative reply from Vista Barnes… her reservations were groundless.

Seraphim is absolutely not your average SL avi… her human has spent a decade making her unique… that being said, despite her not being a balloon-breasted barbie, like most SL female avi’s, she gets a constant stream of appreciative feedback from stranger avi’s, even having creepy, naked males prostrate themselves before her, much to her disgust…

… Seri is (yes, pedants, it’s ‘Seri’, not ‘Sera’… the fact you insist on calling her ‘Sera’ shows your wilful ignorance, which isn’t very cool…) 4000 years old (… sigh… yes, her avi is ten, but lets use our special, SL powers of inconvenient detail suspension, here, ok?)… her mother is a sentient planet, Seri arrived here, accidentally, as a 1000-year-old teenager. All she knew how to do, was kill, in order to feed, which she did extremely efficiently, for the next thousand years, till she matured enough to realise this wasn’t a good practise, if she wanted to blend in, so she began consuming animal blood, then, because she is way cleverer than most humans, she developed a recipe for synthetic blood, which made her a millionaire a thousand times over, and she could retire from the spotlight her battles with the Christian church and the Vampire nation had caused her…

… she deliberately settled into anonymity, and wound up living in SL, in Jormundgandr…

… and she wishes you all a happy new year (: