Morph Studios

Morph

Seraphim visited Morph Studios, today. Morph Studios is billed as a store that has ‘got all you need to be a little sexy demongirl’, it’s all about tentacles and the sort of embellishments that Seraphim has zero interest in, but it also has a scenic sim surrounding it… the blurb says ‘Don’t by [sic] shy to explore the island. Beautiful nature where you can find some mystic spots. But nothing to be afraid, just a peaceful place to relax without scare.’…

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… and that’s exactly what Seraphim found. The store was full of someone’s idea of erotic attachments/apparel for ‘little sexy demongirl’, but the sim was beautiful, with a surprising amount of pure sweetness, like the sleeping bambi beside Seri… Seri hung around to make sure the giant octopus wasn’t going to try eating it, but it didn’t…

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… there were, of course, a lot of tentacular goings on, but they were quite photogenic, and even funny, like the much smaller octopus in the barrel behind Seri…

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… she went with the sim’s recommended Windlight, which had a nice comic book feel…

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… and she spent a good hour, wandering around, finding lots of beautiful spots…

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… and interesting scenes. These barrels reminded Seri of the book ‘Robinson Crusoe’, a book Seri’s human read, as a child, at least 50 years ago, that child had only seen 2 movies (The Sound of Music, and Flipper), and hardly any television, and the story of Robinson Crusoe just flooded it’s empty little mind with visions of Crusoe’s marvelous adventures, which were, of course, the ultimate shipwreck fantasy, where virtually anything Crusoe could possibly have needed, gets washed ashore for him, mostly in barrels, so it’s all perfectly edible, or, in the case of the container of leaf tobacco, perfectly smokable… Crusoe cures himself of some sickness using tobacco smoke! He also gets dozens of rifles, gunpowder, ammunition, knives, hammers, nails, rope… you get the picture. When the book was first published, in 1719, people thought it was a true story.

Oubliette & Petite Mort

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Seraphim has been shopping at the Oubliette and Petite Mort, sister stores, for years… she only realised, today, that their sim has a photographers delight aspect to it, called Witchwood…

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… which, once she gave it a seconds thought, wasn’t too surprising, that the makers of such gorgeous gothic attire, would also have the skill/taste, to craft such a beautiful photographic environment…

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… she spent a good half hour wandering around, checking it all out…

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… feeling totally in her element, being a goth girl from way back…

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… and a photographer for ever…

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… this was a lovely discovery (:

 

Burlap

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This evening, Seraphim visited Cica Ghost’s Burlap…

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… she loved the palette, and the sky…

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… she’s always found Cica Ghost’s characters a little too creepy to be likeable, but she found most of the ones here to be quite likeable, in a whimsically heroic way…

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… this enormous catfish actually borders on being cute…

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… and this staunch lion dude, with his bag of chips, was pretty cool.

Faerie Dance

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Seraphim visited Enchantment at Leloo’s World, the other day. There were birdies…

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… and bunnies…

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… and a cute little blue Fae, who asked Seri if she’d dance with her…

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… and so the two non-humans danced up a storm of Faeriedust…

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… so much, it made even Seri a bit dizzy. Had Seri been mortal, who knows what price that dance would have caused her, but, as she isn’t, it just made her light-headed for a bit. The little blue Fae was surprised, but gracious enough to thank Seri for the dance… she asked Seri what she was, and why was she immune to magic?… but Seri just gave a dizzy laugh, and wandered off to talk to the bunnies.

Game Corner

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Seraphim turned an empty corner of her apartment into a ‘Games Corner’…

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… all assembled around these two, fabulous, Backbone arcade games…

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… which she recently acquired whilst looking for something entirely different… as she does…

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… this corner has been empty for years, other than the pictures and neon on the walls. Now Seri can enjoy playing ‘Ninja Kittens’ under the beautiful, violet gaze of her little, lost Evie…

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… as well as the gorgeous, empty gaze of her Zombie Princess, S4nura, whom she also never sees, any more… just as well she took hundreds of pictures of those girls…

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… Seri also purchased another, eared beanie… one can’t have too many adorable beanies with cat ears, they remind her of the biggest missing presence in her life, Zoey, whom she also expects never to see again…

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… if Seraphim had a middle name, it could very well be ‘eclectic’, because she is nothing, if not that, in her style/taste…

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… she’s very happy with this eclectic little corner of cosyness and fun.

13

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There are now 13 more floors above Seraphims in the 100 floors project…

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… Seri is delighted to be able, once again, to stand on her own balcony. The phantom balcony thing between her and the girl from the floor below, Ututu Davi, has been sorted. Seri isn’t sure if it’s because of the graphics she sent Ututu, depicting the fact the balcony was phantom, or if it was from enlisting Kowloon management to talk to her but, despite the language barrier, things got sorted. Ututu sent her an IM, in English, apologising, and thanking Seraphim for ‘teaching’ her. This delighted Seri… She could not have done the same for Ututu in Ututu’s language, so was impressed Ututu had made the effort…

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… Ututu has made some tweaks to her floor…

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…Seri loves this installation, even more than the one below…

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… her two favourite floors are the two just below hers (:

Hedgehogs

HedgeHogs

Seraphim returned to floor 31, this evening, and added two of her super-cute D-LAB hedgehogs, she really loves these little guys, and feels they are perfect for this space…

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… there are already six more floors above Seri’s floor…

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… all of them filled with wonderful scenes…

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… the girl from the floor below Seraphim seems to have finished her little scene…

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… and it’s really beautiful. Seraphim can’t figure out why that girl has set her balcony, part of which is Seraphim’s landing, to ‘phantom’, making it impossible for anyone to stand outside Seri’s door, but hopes to resolve the issue, despite the language barrier… to which end she has enlisted the help of Magnum Yoshikawa, the ‘Head Carpenter’ of Kowloon. Despite this small, odd problem, Seraphim thinks that ‘Cuneiform Girl’ is very talented, and has created one of the better scenes in this installation. The floor below Cuneiform Girl’s floor has, probably, Seraphim’s favourite setup, so far…

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… it’s wonderfully spartan, contains just a wall switch, a fluorescent light, a table and chair, and this absolutely gorgeous little model kit…

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… Seraphim marvels at the delicate beauty of this scale model Honda, 1960’s racing bike. As the prim allotment for these displays is only 20, this creation must be, given all the other items in the room, 15 at the most… which is astonishing. Back in the day, not only would something this delicate have been all but impossible in SL, it would have been hundreds of prims…

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… Seraphim loves everything about this display, it’s simplicity, it’s zen-like representation of an almost monastic focus on a hobby, the wonder of the model being made in SL, and the sheer beauty of this old machine, which is basically a frighteningly over-powered bicycle! Unfortunately, if you click on anyone else’s objects in these displays, you only see the details for the entire unit and everything in it, in other words, you get no specifics, so Seri has no idea who makes these beautiful model kits in SL… she’s tried searching MP for this model, but had no luck. She would LOVE one of these on one of her shelves, at home!

 

31

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This morning, Seraphim got the group invite needed to place the unit she’d purchased, yesterday (L$60!) for the second ‘Hundred Floors’ project at Kowloon. She went and placed her unit… it looked like the girl in the unit below had just done the same thing… both girls had their blank canvases to fill with 20 prims of their choosing. Seri said ‘hello’ to her neighbour, the neighbour said ‘hi’, followed by a few words in what looked like Persian cuneiform script, to Seri… Seri replied ‘Sorry, I only understand English’, to which her neighbour replied an equally long sentence in cuneiform, and that was the end of that conversation…

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… Seri’s unit is number 31. Each unit consists of the unit, with some elements of the back stairs, which interlock with the unit below’s stairs, and form part of the next unit’s stairs…

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… a prerequisite of being part of the project is to not block the stairs, so any avi that chooses can walk up them… something that would take time and determination, even in SL. You can walk into any unit to explore the many wonders the participants have created…

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… inspiration hit Seri before her neighbour, and she went with her favourite poppy-grass on the floor…

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… cuneiform girl was seconds behind with some cute, Asian statues…

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… running with the bucolic theme (Seri isn’t a concrete jungle kid) she placed a gorgeous painting bought recently, and one of her favourite skulls, and a potted shrub…

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… her neighbour was playing with water…

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… she seemed to be enjoying herself. Seri sent her a smile of encouragement, but was ignored… oh, well, Seri always tries to be friendly, because she IS fucking friendly, but is often rebuffed… no matter, it doesn’t bother her anymore…

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… she added one of her oldest benches, a Yelly Donut (Noctis) creation , and a slatted wooden blind…

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… and she was done! She still has about 5 prims she can add… or she could change it all, but this mornings effort was fun, and she’s happy with it. By the time she’d finished, the Persian was gone, so Seri took the opportunity to go and explore her place, then the one below, and the one below… there are many fascinating creations to explore, here… but that’s another post! If you want to check Seri’s effort, it’s here… you’ll arrive on the landing outside her door*.

*… except that cuneiform girl has somehow set the part of her unit, which is Seri’s landing, to ‘phantom’, so you, or Seri, for that matter, can no-longer stand at Seri’s own back door… makes it tricky to get inside, when you land outside Seri’s door, you fall through the landing and wind up outside HER door ):

Seri has sent her an image of her landing, activated in ‘edit’, showing the edit dialogue box, with ‘phantom’ circled in red… hopefully this might get around the language barrier.

Saturday 25th

100

Seraphim was at the Bushfire Wildlife Benefit, this morning, when Veyot asked her if she wanted to come to Kowloon to see the 100-storey building project, there. She said ‘sure’, and soon was sitting at a desk, with Veyot at the other, in one of the units in the second of the 100-storey buildings being created in Kowloon, that mystical, odd place…

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… Veyot showed Seri the unit she had placed in the stack…

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… you buy a unit, in which you can put 20 prims, and place it on top of the stack…

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… which is, apparently, the second one. It’s nowhere near 100 floors, yet it towers above Kowloon, already. Veyot had to go, so Seri went through the steps to place a unit of her own, and returned to the Bushfire Wildlife Benefit event…

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… she was pleased to see there were a lot of avi’s there. Because it’s such a worthy cause, she was unconstrained in her spending when she saw stuff she liked…

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… like this absolutely GORGEOUS kangaroo mum plushie, by the wonderful M0oh…

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… there were heart-rending images all around, of the helpless victims of this man-made disaster, images that always make Seri cry, they are so fucking tragic…

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… these poor little guys have had to stagger (they (koalas) live in trees, not on the ground) through miles of burning debris to escape the total destruction of their only liveable habitat, which would literally have been exploding behind them… the heat and smoke would have been horrendous, their fur would have been smouldering, their skin burning, each one of them is a testimony to animal tenacity… it’s been estimated one billion animals have been killed in these fires, and some endangered species may be driven to extinction… these animals cannot live anywhere else, they are totally evolved to live in gum forests…

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… and the forests are being obliterated, and will probably NEVER recover…

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… humans have done this. Asshole humans like the repulsive fat pig in charge of America, who claims global warming is a Chinese hoax, and that Greta Thunberg’s Person of the Year award is ridiculous, because HE didn’t manage to buy or extort it, whereas she EARNED it through her unceasing, amazing efforts to make the likes of creeps like him realise the harm they are doing to the planet (a lost cause with a deluded, unbelievably stupid moron like the giant, angry baby president)…

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… the harm they are doing to this poor creature and what’s left of his home and family.