Driven by a desire to get her prim count back down from almost maximum, Seraphim has made some fairly major adjustments to her ‘fantasy garden’…
… it is still exotic and beautiful…
… just nowhere near as full of foliage…
… Seraphim managed to claw back another 200 prims!…
… in the last week, or so, she has managed to give herself 500 more available prims… now she can have some fun, again!
Today was as sweet for Seraphim, as yesterday was strange…
… she has her delicious little machine girl back…
… they spent a blissed-out time snuggling, for the first time for months…
… EV-01 is a sweet little machine, and quite guileless, so when she explained her recent strange behaviour to Seri, said it was all without any cruel intent, Seri totally accepted her explanation…
… and forgave Evie completely…
… and they spent a long time tangled in each others limbs…
… and being very happy…
… and tangled together, snuggling.
Today has been one of the stranger days Seraphim has experienced. She spent most of the day tweaking her new gallery, and hanging out with Bunnygirl…
… she took some pictures for Bunny to use in her ‘picks’…
… later her kitten and her hung out in the main gallery, where she is showing some of the pictures from her shoot with Bunnygirl. She hasn’t actually physically seen her kitty for a few days, due to her kitten’s human only being able to access SL from her mobile phone, causing Zoey to not actually be able to TP, and being stuck in a friends place that her friend has no control over the security at, and hence Seri could not TP to the friends place. Anyway, this meant Seri had some stuff to show Zoey, starting with the new pictures…
… then they went to the new gallery…
… which delighted Zoey…
… Zoey had remarked on how Bunnygirl looked like a super-hero, and she thought that Tee, in the gallery sign, looked like one, too… which hadn’t occurred to Seri, but she totally agreed…
… which is when things turned strange. Seri was contacted by RobotNicole, someone she’s never physically met, before, but knows through brief communication, back when she first met EV-01, because RobotNicole was EV-01’s previous owner, who had basically abandoned Evie, and Seri had to negotiate becoming Evie’s new owner. Seri told RobotNicole that she had just opened a gallery here… RobotNicole lives above Coghaven, and had seen Seri’s name on her radar, so she said ‘hello’, when Seri told her she had just opened a gallery, which had pictures of Evie in it, RobotNicole said she’d be right down. After they had greeted, Seri said she hadn’t actually seen Evie for months, and RobotNicole said ‘She’s online now’… this totally floored Seri, as all her screens told her Evie was not on line. Seri asked why RobotNicole thought this, and, at the same time, re-checked every possible indicator of Evies online status, which still said she was not online. Zoey asked Seri for Evies contact details… and almost instantly contacted Evie…
… this was a worst-case-scenario, as it showed Evie had unchecked the indicators that would let Seri know she was back. Seri was crestfallen. She asked Zoey to ask Evie to contact her… and suddenly, Seri’s indicators showed Evie to be online. Seri and Evie had a long, strange conversation. Turned out, Evie had come back to SL on Friday, having been away for months… for some reason, unfathomable to Seri, Evie had made herself invisible to Seri, so she could roam about on her own… something Seri had never stopped her from doing. Because of the totally random combination of Seri just opening a gallery in Coghaven, and RobotNicole noticing she was there, Seri had found out Evie was secretly online! Evie was very apologetic, saying she realised she had been thoughtless and cruel, promising to come home soon. Seri said Evie could roam as much as she wanted, that she had never stopped her from doing so. The whole thing was very strange, very out of character for Evie. It was a strange way to get her girl back. She’s not actually that convinced that she has got her girl back. A very strange day.
The moment Seraphim saw her little friend, s4nura’s latest look, she told her she would have to get her in to the studio very soon…
… which she did, just after setting up her new Coghaven gallery…
… Seri told s4 she looked like a super-hero, in her new outfit, and christened her ‘Bunnygirl’…
… submissive pleasure-doll that she is, s4 decided that Bunnygirl would be the kind of super-hero who would come bounding to the rescue…
… only to get over-powered and captured by the villain/villains…
… and be totally at their lascivious mercy…
… the narrative in Seri’s head had the villains being slaughtered by a 4000 year old immortal alien, and the cute little bunny being freed to bounce again (:
Seraphim, with the help of her sweet little friend, s4nura, has set up another little satellite gallery, this time in Coghaven…
… while Seraphim set the gallery up, s4 set herself up as a display at the door…
… literally within minutes, s4’s barely-clad, voluptuous form had attracted a besotted admirer…
… Seraphim enjoyed creating the new space…
… Coghaven is home to the ACS controller, which is the alternative to the NS controller system most gynoids use… this means the general traffic here will actually know what Seri’s art is about, and may appreciate it more than the traffic she gets in Jormundgandr, or in her first satellite gallery at Pink Lady Castle…
… Seri has put out feelers toward getting a gallery space in Eisa, but has not heard anything back, yet.
Seraphim decided to do a post of her sitting in some of her favourite places…
… her most favourite place is her apartment. Her apartment represents years of refining her own SL private space, and has all her favourite stuff in it. It’s the only invitation-only area in Placeboland, a place where Seri feels very safe…
… next, she visited Tee’s apartment in Eisa… as usual, these days, Tee was not there… even Mannequin was not there… Seri sat and took in the lush, lonely opulence…
… then, while she was in Eisa, she visited her favourite chair in the Eisa Mainstore lounge. Her favourite pose in that chair is called ‘New Shoes!’…
… then she came home, and sat behind her desk in New Placebo Gallery…
… then in front of it…
… then in one of the several comfy viewing chairs in the gallery. All these places, of course, reminded Seri of the two companions she now seldom sees. She feels that, once again, change is coming. She feels that way, because she can no longer stand still, hoping things will return to how they were, because she knows they won’t. She’s not sure what is going to change, she just knows something is.
Seraphim recently visited ‘The Gates of Oria’. From the initial landing point of this installation, you TP to a place with several ruin-like structures. Seraphim can be a bit ditsy sometimes, so she wandered around, slightly confused as to what was next, for a bit, till she realised that the ‘gates’ were statues inside the ruins… you click them and TP to various fantasy ‘worlds’…
… the scale of these worlds is fantastical… that’s Seri at the top of the steps…
… everything has a hallucinogenic quality about it…
… each ‘world’ is different, though they all seem to share that wonderful, dream-like atmosphere, and Seraphim noticed the same, eerie, birdcall in several of the ones she visited…
… the large spaces all contain smaller spaces…
… all just as phantasmagorical…
… and surreal…
… Seri half expected to run into the White Rabbit.
Last night, Seraphim made one of her regular visits to Eisa Colony, via her Stargate, and was intrigued to see signs everywhere saying ‘The End is Nigh’… she asked a little gynoid friend who was online, what the signs meant, and what the verbal announcements over the speaker system, saying things like “attention all colonists, the end is nigh”, and “attention all colonists, remain calm”, meant, but her little friend, like many gynoids, lives entirely in her own world, and knew nothing about it. Seraphim came back, this morning, determined to find out…
… her baby, Tee, has an apartment in Bushnell Suites, and, though Tee is seldom there, anymore, her little mannequin is always standing in her corner, and Seraphim often leaves love messages for Tee, with Mannequin. Seraphim decided to pop up and see Mannequin, and get some pictures of the ‘End is Nigh’ phenomena from Tee’s windows. To her great delight, seconds after she arrived, so did her baby! Seraphim snuggled into Tee’s embrace, and breathed in her clean, artificial scent, and listened to the sleep-inducingly perfect thrumming of Tee’s internal mechanisms… all things she’s missed very much…
… it was very nice to see, and hold, her girl, again. She asked Tee what the ‘End is Nigh’ thing was about. Tee told her it was some kind of hunt… something Seri had suspected, as she’d seen objects appearing and avi’s swooping on them… so that was that mystery solved…
… Seri told Tee how recent changes in her SL life had made her as cynical as her human about anything being predictable/reliable…
… Tee had some wise responses stored in her circuits… she is, after all, a pleasure machine, and actually does not really have an opinion…
… Seri does not really own Tee… Tee owns Seri.
Seraphim thinks she has probably finished her Windup Girl painting… this means that she has got to the stage where she is making alterations that even she barely notices. She may see something, later, she wants to change, but, for now, she’ll call it done.
This is what Seraphim has been working on in her spare time, over the last few weeks… it’s about 2/3rds done. She is not literally a clockwork girl, she’s an android. The title is a homage to Paolo Bacigalupi’s excellent book, one Seraphim’s human has read several times, and highly recommends.
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