Category: Seraphim

Beautiful Mess

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Seraphim lives in a home she built herself. It’s nothing fancy, just really spacious, because she likes being surrounded by all the beautiful things she collects…

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… her most treasured item is these two guys… they were the first gacha she ever played, they are the ‘rare’, and she was only after them, and she won them first spin… she absolutely adores these guys…

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… she has been a fairly addicted gacha player, ever since, because there’s just so much cool ‘stuff’ to win!… she has a lot of kiwi’s, because her human is from New Zealand, and she shares her human’s pride in being a ‘kiwi’…

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… this ‘little brown kiwi’ is probably her fave…

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… she also has many dolls, because she just loves them…

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… she has many cat-themed treasures, her absolute favourite is this pink ‘kitty in a balloon’, which, of course, is a ‘rare’… she (pink kitty) cruises around Seri’s living area, in her little pink balloon, her flight-path is very erratic, and she leaves a little trail of flame from her balloon’s burner, and she lets out the occasional meow, all of which totally melts Seri’s cat-loving heart…

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… Seraphim also loves good neon…

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… amongst other stuff.

 

Studio Time

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Having read about RioSisco Studio Pictures on Inara Pey’s blog, Seraphim decided to go and see it herself. The first thing she loved was the dramatic scale juxtapositions, from the tiny…

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… to the gargantuan. The two avis sitting on the roof are Seri’s fellow bloggers, Pearl and Klaus. Pearl and Klaus happened to arrive at the sim seconds after Seri, in fact, Pearl landed on Seri’s head. After a brief hello, Pearl and Klaus went one way, and Seri went another, later spotting them on the roof, as she set up this shot…

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… there’s all kinds of fun stuff to see in this build…

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… several species of saurian…

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… a really cool maze that could be used perfectly for something like Alien vs. Predator…

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… if it had been any bigger, Seri could have gotten lost in it…

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… and never found this rain-soaked alley…

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… or this beautiful building.

Snow Queen

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When Seraphim first arrived in ‘Winter Hollow’, this morning, she found the windlight a bit harsh, and tried to create something better, but she couldn’t quite match it, so went back to it… and it quite grew on her. The pallet is almost monochromatic in it’s washedout-ness…

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… and, by pure fluke, matched Seri’s colours beautifully…

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… she soon found herself loving this winter landscape and it’s muted pinks/blues/greys, and the silently falling snow…

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… there are actually a lot of buildings/structures in this sim, Seri had to go out of her way to create these ‘silent wilderness’ images…

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… often, there are structures just out of the frame…

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… but she much preferred the empty, silent, snow-blanketed-forest look.

Pandume

Seraphim doesn’t have many ‘friends’, she seldom accepts ‘friend’ requests… she believes a ‘friend’ is someone who actually thinks about you, and who contacts you occasionally… who actually wants to talk to you and, even more rarely, hang out with you… if she accepts your ‘friend’ request, then you never talk to her, unless she contacts you, first, after a few months, she’ll ‘unfriend’ you, because you were never her friend, were you…

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… her three closest friends are Zoey, Luna, and Pandume… these three are the friends who she actually hung out with, who actually shared stuff with her, went places with her… there was a time when the four of them were always together. Unfortunately, unlike Seraphim, who is very much a creature of disciplined routine, her friends are not, and they are often absent from SL for long periods of time, Luna and Pandume in particular. Pandume has a castle, just down the road from Seraphim, and, although Pandume has been absent from SL for months, as she does, Seraphim regularly visits her castle, just to make sure it’s still there… today, she had, literally, just walked in, when Pandume logged on!…

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… Seri was delighted to see her lovely, succubus friend, again…

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… Seri told Pandume how much the neighbourhood had changed, since she was last here, and about how she’d been coming here, regularly, all the time Pandume was gone, just to make sure it was still here, and to just be here, because she loves Pandume’s place…

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… it was so nice seeing her, again, and so trippy that she’d appeared, just as Seri walked in (:

 

Fusion

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Seraphim took time from her work on ‘Whimsical Eclectic’, to visit the Fusion sim…

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… she found a beautiful, very Asian-themed sim…

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… with pretty, industrial/commercial spaces…

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… and items by many of her favourite creators, lovingly incorporated into the general aesthetic…

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… the whole sim has a clean, modern look/feel…

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… with traditional elements mixed in…

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… Seraphim particularly liked all the vintage posters…

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… Fusion is a beautiful, elegant work.

Drune: East of Eden

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Little Fox – Fox Road

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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…

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

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… Seraphim loves these arty, set-like builds…

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

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

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

Ethereal

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

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… was this absolutely adorable greeter-bot…

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… 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…

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

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… it was all like a faerie’s dream…

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… very soothing and pretty.

ChatuChak

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

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

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… 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…

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

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

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… which are piled with delicious, fresh produce…

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… 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…

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… 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 (: