I've been trying for so long to sing you the right song

The Anesidora Keybound halo is now out at Arkivet's main store as well as the Marketplace--also where I just learned some of the prior brand's "Java#" releases can be found. Do I need more Teegle skins? No. Do I plan to get them at some point? Why, yes.

And look! Look look look!



I freely admit, I don't have one-hundredth of the talent that some of their bloggers do. So I never expect to get noticed for my work, and that's okay--really and truly. But someone tall, thin and demonic mentioned it, and so I had to go see. And I got the honorable mention! I'm so pleased.

Then...several months later, LONG past February...

This is now old. March 1st it was dated, and I'm fairly sure I copied the Halo info out earlier, two months back, and sent it out in another entry...and then didn't delete this. So--it's a bit of a clip entry now.

First, this bit from a freebie group:

[15:26] SiN-1 (synthetikangel): In memory of Paloma from from Free Dove to keep her SL Dream alive they now have Paloma Plaza open with free gifts with free group (Free Dove style) Gallii (173,38,33)

So...there's that, at least.

Second, telling everyone about the gift at We Love Roleplay from /Vae Victis\ now!



This is meant to go with the "Themis" Judgement Hammer, which is now out at We Love Roleplay on a 25% discount for the run of the event. So you can pick it up for only L$450!

I happened to be at Olive's main store, when I realized I hadn't taken these shots yet. So clearly, the horns are meant to go with giant bunnies. Or something.

And right out of the box I can tell: this is the wrong hair for these. No space buns for Themis. Still, I think I can make them work.



Okay, confirmed--even edged back and tilted, they REALLY don't like buns. Best I can do for now, because weirdly I think they're perfect for the current hair (amusingly, Olive's "Usagi" hair from an old gacha, in all the spring greens) and the skin (which is also old, but also amusingly might still be purchaseable from the last 25LTuesday offer of the Chronicles on the sale board.



(I checked; they are still available, though by the time ZombEm found the second brain cell to clack together, it was the Tuesday following.) Took this just outside by the fountain in Chronicles, which yes, is also the name of the sim.
[[Note from the Editrix, pre-publishing: Did I say the Tuesday following? It's Friday now. Brane broken, plz halp.]]

Also, it appears the giant bunnies are not sittable. Em haz a sad.



I think Vein 2 and 4 are the outer colorable veins, and the inner are 1 and 3. And this is pretty much trompe l'oeil--I'm "laying" about a meter above the back of one of the bunnies.



While we're here, have a gander at the HUD: these horns offer eleven different options for the horns, and then eleven options for each colorable vein! Very nifty.



Then I got inexplicably tired [[Editrix insert: remember, I wrote this bit back on March 1st, it's now March 18th]]--and honestly, that's been one of the most frustrating things of the eternal headache, is the sudden energy loss--so left SL to have a nap, which led into dinner, which led into me logging in later and going, "Oh, right, I didn't finish this shoot". So here I am at Ballade and Poeme's sim, for the following two.

If you join the We Love Roleplay group (which is free), these curled horns can be yours for ten Lindens. And hey, while you're there, the "Themis" Judgement Hammer can also be yours for L$450, at the /Vae Victis\ booth!



And sun seems to be going down, so I guess this is the end.

It helps that I'm deeply into horns--I'm afraid to count how many I have, even, and I've divided them into four categoriees in the fantasy folder--lights, darks, constructs and seasonal--and each of those folders has sub-folders for ram/goat horns, antlers, and demonic.

Any housekeeping left...well, I'm actually very supportive of this decision. Will it help, though? Who knows. If nothing else it might make the Marketplace easier to navigate.

Oh, and Enchantment's new round, Dark Academia, has opened, and Vae Victis' offerings there: the 'Aza Empyrea' Cosmic Codex for L$500, the AO to go with it for L$700, and the Gothic Frames for L$75.

(I am going to cover ONE of those, but it may be the gothic architectural frames--I'm trying to figure out how the hell I'd do the Codex proud.

Also! The "Minerva" Hellebore Diadem will be on sale at Vae Victis' main store for L$99, btw. This weekend only!

And now I think that's it, so...see ya!

they say you can't go home again, it's true, especially when your home burns down around you

I don't know why I'm not letting go of the holidays this year. My playlist is still carols and solstice favorites, and our wee frosted tree festooned with musical instruments is still up. Got me, why, it's just a comfort, and these days, I go with those.



Today I'm at the Temple of Sound in Riki, to show you another group gift from /Vae Victis\, this time the "Marbas" Beast Pelt boa.

Straight out of the box, no adjustments, no tinting, and it's a perfect fit. Which is honestly impressive, because Grim's nineteen feet tall. I figured at the least it would be ankle-length.



There are eleven shades total--as is tradition, there's a capture of the HUD later--and I don't know if I can do them justice. I do know I want that floating house behind me.



I had never gone downstairs at the Temple, so...I decided to find out what was there. There's a pool there! And a nice bench to rest upon. And just enough shadow to drape around the deep crimson fur.



Maybe I'm not the only one clinging to holiday feelings--Persephone Phoenix, the owner and operator of the Temple of Sound, and the ski slope behind it, has scattered several holiday trees around her property. Each of them have some cats, open to all. (She had them under request for two per person, but of late I think she just wants them carted off, so she's lifted that restriction!) Some are actual freebies, priced at L$0; some are slightly fancier breeds at L$200, which is still a deal; one or two are marked at L$1000 (usually those are the really BIG cats).

There are some that are not priced at all, and I see this partially as her just missing a few, because she had a LOT of cats out, as well as a minor contemplation moment on wanting the unattainable. Either way, you could probably drop her a line and ask about specific ones and see what she'd like them priced at.

I thought the brilliant emerald would go with the tree best.



And of course I'm not going to ignore the traditional pink shades! I actually considered leaving this one out, because it clips through the couch and I didn't feel like that much editing? But then I thought again, because clipping is a part of life in SL, and this was the only time I actually noticed it happening!



And that was that, and now it's time to reconsider what we're putting inside Steam towers, now that they're remaining for a while! Definitely the small bar I found, absolutely, but should the Cthulhu drinks go out again? Because the table goes very well with the place--it's a giant gear, with a friendly brass octopus topper--but that means the table will be out, and people will drink from the server...and we'll have people dropping dead all over again. Such a bother.

Oh--did I mention? You can't buy this at the mainstore, but you can get it at the main store for joining the group. It's glorious enough to go for L$500, but no, just the small bookkeeping fee for group joining (I think it's L$10 at present?). Do go see.

{{Brief comment one day after posting from the Editrix: yes, I did notice here and there the fur clipping through my bosom. But nearly everything I own clips through my bosom. It's a hazard I've accustomed m'self to.}}

creation comes when you learn to say no

So. I got another email that should have been caught by the spam filter...

Hi there,

...Hi there.

My name is [Lxxxx], I am the main editor at Snoozy Monk ([leaving the name in but not the webpage]).

Okay...and your site has what to do with mine?

While browsing your site, I noticed you have an amazing article from this page:

"Amazing". Really?

http://razorblade-cookies.blogspot.com/2020/11/reputable-profile-my-left-foot.html

And this, Constant Reader, is where the Editrix felt her head tilt nearly all the way off. Because that "article" has NOTHING to do with insomnia. It's all taking on yet another spam letter, prefaced by a quote on D/s I thought relevant at the time.

And it's over a year old!

My team actually just published a comprehensive article on "Everything You Need To Know About Insomnia" which I think your visitors would truly appreciate and add value to your awesome article.

I doubt that, but...

You can check it out here: https://www.snoozymonk.com/blogs/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-insomnia

And this one I did leave in, even though it is clearly intended as spamvertising. I skimmed it, and...I mean, it does contain information that might help, but it's also the same information a five-minute search of Google would turn up. I am deeply confused.

If you were willing to add our link to that page, I would be more than happy to share it to my social followers to help you gain some visibility in exchange.

Not a chance in anything.

Let me know what you think and thank you for your consideration!

I plan to let you know by clicking the 'remove my name from your list' button.

Cheers,

Sure, merry whatever...

Lxxxx Mxxxx

Right. Couldn't even wait until the year rolled around to 2022 to hit me with "Hi, I got your name from a random bot search, you might be gullible enough to pimp us!". Honestly.

don't remember it, don't return to it (part XCI)

(Roleplay-ish entry. Continued from part XC.)

[00:15] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i've got pits at the corner of tannhauswer and dark sea.
[00:18] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): WHAT

(And then we brought in a poet. Glug.)

[00:18] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Are we under attack??
[00:18] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): just one pit.
[00:18] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): over here.

(This is why we can't have nice sims. They spawn mysterious pits.)

[00:18] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): corner near new alexandria.
[00:21] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I DON'T UNDERSTAND
[00:21] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): What is going on

(And oh, look--another land peak out of nowhere.)

[00:22] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): We do have one mysterious land peak which I didn't do anything with....
[00:23] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) dodges lightning zones in Krakenstorm, and....finds...half a hole??
[00:25] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Two half holes. One smaller, I just filled that in, one more....rectangular....like....

(Oh, don't tell me.)

[00:25] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) facepalms. My gods, this almost writes itself. Like a very large body was under the seabed....

(I mean...really, isn't that oddly coffin-shaped?)

[00:27] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I'm so confused.

I still am.

(Continued in part XCII.)

looking for a dime and found a quarter (part XC)

(Roleplay-ish, again. Continued from part LXXXIX.)

We pick up where we left off, under the waters of the Dark Sea:

[00:08] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I need either many more of these, or just to create a scene, because--all three of these? No copy. Grr.
[00:09] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): pffft. no copy!

(Seriously, designers. It's a fish emitter. It's incredibly wasteful to expect people to buy twenty-five emitters if they want to toss your fish out in several sims, and I for one, for all I love the skeletal ones, am going to be looking towards someone who makes emitters that require me to keep one item in inventory I can then toss out as many as I need of, rather than twenty-five no-copy versions.)

[00:09] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): ok, so. square pits on GH and dark sea ...
[00:09] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): related?
[00:09] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): are there pits on any of the other sims?

(Bit of foreshadowing from later.)

[00:09] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): should we check tannhauser?
[00:09] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i think we should check tannhauser.

(More foreshadowing.)

[00:10] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): or .. i should check tannhauser....
[00:11] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): it's dark down here.
[00:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It is.

(Even more foreshadowing.)

[00:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And either way! Want to port me when you get up there, I can go look at whatever.
[00:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Hmm. Do you know, I haven't checked...
[00:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I'll go check Krakenstorm

(I forgot our medic had a seahorse form.)

[00:15] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): OMG
[00:15] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Zack came by as a seahorse
[00:15] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It's adorable

It really was. And beats all heck out of a rebreather or my usual alternative, growing gills.

(Continued in part XCI.)

there's so many things that you'll never understand (part LXXXIX)

(Roleplay-ish entry? Continued from part LXXXVII.)

[23:51] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): OMG
[23:51] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): THERE'S MORE

(Why does this keep happening??)

[23:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): there ARE????
[23:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): but ... how?
[23:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): they aren't square!
[23:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): they're different.

(Another angle on the first pit.)

[23:53] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): The one I'm in front of is--the one nearby, it's not, so....*maybe* could be terraforming somewhere else? We'll have to ask Hiro
[23:53] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): the sides aren't vertical.
[23:53] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): this looks more like erratic terraforming than our pits on gh.
[23:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And I can't see any others, but the one near the temple...
[23:54] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): or .... the dark holes left by dark ones rising.
[23:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): That one IS square.....
[23:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): 0.0
[23:54] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): the empty holes left by dark ones rising, that is.

(This is the one next to the remains of the undersea temple, more rectangular than square.)

[23:55] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i mean ... if, let's say, cthulhu awoke and took to the skies to wreak his dread wroth upon an unsuspecting humanity ... the hole he would leave would look ....
[23:55] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Wow. That's not down to bedrock, but....s'pretty deep.
[23:55] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst) shouts up, "a lot like this!
[23:55] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): it's nearly, i'm at 1m.
[23:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): that's what i was checking. to see if they go right down.
[23:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): sides are nearly vertical, but still walkable.
[23:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay, so--it's not like the others. It just looks like the others?
[23:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): superficially. but still not square.
[23:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): close though.
[23:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): really ... damn ... close.

(Some of the skeletal fish that swim through the Dark Sea.)

[23:57] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And see, I want to feel a little better about that, but....we do have that dimensional traveler in the dining room....
[23:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): yes.
[23:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): yes we do.
[23:57] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): THIS SIM IS WEIRD
[23:57] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Wait
[23:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): little bit too much of a coincidence.
[23:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): We're not even in Gearhaven! This is a different sim!
[23:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): emilly, watch the time.
[23:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): YES
[23:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Actually, I am.
[23:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): penny drop. we are not on gearhaven.
[23:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I have permission.
[23:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): oh! ok!

I have a set bedtime. She worries when I get close to it. But I had had a hellish day before the undersea adventures, and had asked for time to decompress.

[00:02] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Weird, though. I would have had no idea if I hadn't decided to putter about with dead fish emitters.
[00:06] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): dead ... fish ?
[00:07] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): dead fish emitters?
[00:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Well, skeletal fish?
[00:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Over here

(More of the skeletal fish.)

[00:07] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): you know, those edges do look straight and square...
[00:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): They do
[00:08] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst) mutters, "old ones. rising."
[00:08] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Mmhmm

(Continued in part XC.)

a tied-up moth seemed to know a different way (part LXXXVIII)

(WHY DID THREE PUBLISH TODAY?? DAMN IT! Roleplay entry? Maybe? Continued from part LXXXVII.)

It's never normal on Gearhaven...even when I'm not on Gearhaven:

[23:49] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): We have another pit!
[23:49] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): what????

(It's not clear to bedrock, but it IS square, and deep.)

[23:49] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): you're [f**king] kidding?
[23:49] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): you're [f**king] with me.
[23:49] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Nope, and you'll LOVE this one

(I'd put out a starfish that made rainbow bubbles; you can see a few behind me. They're closer to the camera, they're not that huge normally, but the pit is--there's a me in this shot for reference.)

[23:49] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): you expect me to believe ...
[23:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): that you and i were talking aobut the tentacle.
[23:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It's bigger

(This is mystifying.)

[23:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): and i suggested maybe there was a nest
[23:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): and it was related to the pits
[23:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): and NOW there IS one?
[23:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And it's right next to the underwater temple in the Dark Sea

(Justine starting to investigate how deep the first pit goes.)

[23:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): you're [f**king] with me.
[23:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I'm not!
[23:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I did not do this!
[23:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): tp?

(So I ported her in. We are the two tiny specks in the lower-left-hand corner of the shot.)

[23:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Now I'm wondering if there are any MORE
[23:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): what the actual [F**K]?

Indeed. This will bear more investigation, clearly.

(Continued in part LXXXIX.)

come join the party in the dust and the sand

Oh, this one's going to be...fun...

Dear Ms. [name],

Oh, hi--am I not off your mailing list yet? I've told you twice, thanksbutno, take me off. Seems...not to have taken?

I want to have your name and intentions taken to Fátima for the 104th Anniversary of the most amazing historic event.

How...is that going to work, precisely? How can you take my name to a place?

Would you like that?

I have no idea. Why would I want that, again?

Click here [link given] to add "[name]" to the ANF banner in Fátima!

Ohhh, I get it now. You want to put my name on a banner. To take TO Fátima. Silly idea, but okay.

Yes, that is correct, on May 12th, the eve of the 104th Anniversary of Our Lady’s first apparition at Fátima, Portugal, our ambassadors will carry your name on the unique America Needs Fátima Banner during the Fátima celebrations and candlelight procession.

No thanks.

They will also present your intentions to Our Lady of Fátima on the exact spot where she appeared.

No thanks.

Join me and thousands more, by having your intentions delivered to the very spot where the Queen of Heaven appeared to the three shepherd children so long ago.

Sounds like a cash grab.

Though we have all been dealt a trying hand this past year, Our Lady has been with you and I every step of the way.

And as uncertain as the future looks for America right now, I know she will stay by our sides through it all.

She will never abandon her faithful children!

Good to know, but, thing is, I'm not actually Catholic? Sorry if you have that impression. I've tried to correct that by unsubscribing.

So, [name], what better way to thank her for her sweet maternal protection--nd lay our present difficulties at her feet--than to participate spiritually in the annual Fátima celebrations?

I can think of lots of ways. Most of them far more direct than carrying a banner with a bunch of names on it.

Click here to have your name added to ANF’s Banner carried through the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima.

No, but good luck with that. Really.

Because you love Mother Mary so much,

That's assuming a great deal about me because once you offered a free scapular with the image of Mary of Fátima, and I accepted...

because you want her Immaculate Heart to Reign over all this troubled world and because you have supported ANF with your prayers and sacrifices in the past

Err, no, I paid you a pittance once to send me a rosary chaplet, because that was a bit nicer than the scapular, but I haven't paid you a single centime since--and won't, in all likelihood.

--for all these reasons, and more...

Right, we're back at cash grab again.

...I want to offer you this beautiful spiritual experience absolutely FREE!

The hell you say.

So what are you waiting for? Click here now [link given] and send your name and intentions to Fátima this May for the 104th anniversary celebration of Our Lady’s first apparition at Fátima, Portugal.

No, but thanks. I'm going to try again to get off this mailing list,

I remain your friend,
In Jesus and Mary,

Sure, whatever,

Robert Ritchie
Director, America Needs Fátima

I mean, look. As far as religious hucksters go, I don't think this group is entirely terrible, which is why I'm leaving their web page link in. They are operating from a prophecy from one of the children that says fairly clearly, world go boom unless Russia worships Mary. Which...no, on multiple levels, but I can see why they're invested.

But my sideline interest in Marian cults doesn't respond to this level of froth. I don't care if someone carries my name through the streets of Fátima. Why does it matter? It certainly won't matter to the residents of Fátima. It won't matter to the people carrying the banner. And it's certainly not going to be "FREE", as they said. There will be a fee for doing this, at some point, I guarantee it.

So no, thanks, I'm going to try to get off your mailing list again. Good luck with the world saving.

don't have to tell you this world is whack

It started out so innocently (and I have to say, yes, anonymized, but again from the Contraption group, because elsewise the misspeaking makes no sense)...

[21:47] Mxxxxx Yxxx: can anyone point me in the direction of a good monocle i feel like i saw one recently but damned if i can find it now
[21:47] Sxxxxx Dxxxxxxx: Engine Room has one
[21:47] Sxxxxx Dxxxxxxx: I believe
[21:48] dxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxxx: There's one in the contraception shop too, on the right as you come in amongst the eyewear.

Meet Mistah J. Darn you, autocoffee!

[21:48] Sxxxxx Dxxxxxxx: it was either that or We Love Roleplay
[21:48] Mxxxxx Mxxxxxxx: lol
[21:48] Hunter (drunkenmonkeystyle): Rip it off of old pennybags
[21:48] Mxxxxx Mxxxxxxx: contraception haha
[21:48] Sxxxxx Dxxx: Contraption
[21:48] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) knows what [Jxxx] meant, but now she's amused by the concept of the contraception shop also carrying monacles
[21:48] Vxxxxxxxxxx Cxxxxxxxx: The Kosmii one at NeoJapan I assume?
[21:48] dxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxxx: oh jfc im so sorry
[21:48] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Because....reasons
[21:48] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): No, truly, it's fine
[21:48] dxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxxx: I need to use the sleep. x_x

Many of us do.

[21:50] sxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: (wonders if monocles can be used as contraception)
[21:51] pxxxxxxxxxxx Sxxxx: only condomonocles
[21:51] sxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: hehehehe good one
[21:51] dxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxxx: What have I done
[21:52] axxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Doesn't that comic Saturday Morning cereal or what ever have single use monocoles
[21:52] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): If it wasn't you, it would surely be someone else. Unusual conversations are nearly as common here as in Caledon.
[21:52] sxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: hmm looks like the jokes are
[21:52] sxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: reproducing
[21:53] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) giggles
[21:53] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): That was terrible.
[21:53] sxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: well, [Jxxx]'s comment was pretty
[21:53] sxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: seminal
[21:54] dxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxxx: Really I think this is just getting Blown out of proportion.
[21:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) facepalms

Can't leave puns alone, they tend to breed, after all...

keep drifting, thieves drifting

I received a somewhat frantic IM from Justine. She said the house had shifted? Or something. So I went to check it out.

[16:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): ok, so these stairs....
[16:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): up here.
[16:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay.
[16:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): so this wall that i am slamming into.
[16:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): seems a lot closer to the up stairs and the door than it used to be.

(The wall in question.)

[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i feel like it moved.
[16:51] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It does, but....why?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): if you look at this corner....
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): see?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i don't know why.
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): why do sink holes keep appearing?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): are the two things related?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): does the build move when we terraform?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i don't know.
[16:51] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It shouldn't
[16:51] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): But we shouldn't get random square land pits either
[16:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): right. it shouldn't
[16:52] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I have NO idea
[16:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): so, i didn't try to move this wall back because i don't know if that's what moved?
[16:52] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay, trying a thing
[16:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): and what i'll break if i push it back.

(The outside of the wall section that moved.)

[16:52] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Man, cannot tell if it's supposed to move with the metal facing, or the bricks
[16:53] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): alone
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay, this is weird. I hit edit linked?
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Tap this one wall
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It selects 150 objects
[16:54] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): right. ok.
[16:54] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): that's not unreasonable.
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I tap the curved bit? 303.
[16:54] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): ahhh. that is weird.
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): So. I will try a thing, but yeep
[16:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I wish I could remember what it looked like before
[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i know.
[16:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): You're right that it looks off, but--does that make it better?

(Another angle of the exterior wall.)

[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): oh!
[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): maybe we should go back to oceanpoint!
[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): and look to see what it looks like there!

Well, derp. Of course.

[16:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Good point.
[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): also ... my friend major has a steamopolis at his place! we could go look at that!
[16:57] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) laughs
[16:57] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Have I met Major yet?
[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): that is for sure not to have moved, because it's brand new and he doesn't do much.
[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i think so. he used to be mojo nova?
[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): now he's major hijinx. :)

(A closer look at the wall section. It had moved, but...by a really, really small amount.)

[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i don't see him often.
[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i mean, like, once a month or something.
[16:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): The Portrait was taken in his studio.

Yes, the portrait that will haunt our dreams. Of course.

[16:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Mojo Nova strikes a faint bell.
[16:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Well, your opt, his version or Oceanpoint's.
[16:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): let's go see his.
[16:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): hold on....
[16:59] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): oh, it's gone. :) he must have changed his mind.
[16:59] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): oceanpoint it is!
[16:59] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay!

So off we went.

[17:00] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Oh, this is interesting
[17:00] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): So yes, but
[17:00] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): it looks exactly the same!
[17:00] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Only part of the wall

(After I thought I'd fixed it.)

[17:00] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): No, part of it is is out of alignment, but forward, not back
[17:00] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i just never noticed how tight the space was on this landing.
[17:00] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): how odd.
[17:01] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): So we need to back the one wall section up at Gearhaven by....an inch or so
[17:01] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Yeah. I don't remember it being quite this compact either?
[17:04] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And now it matches? I think?
[17:06] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): thanks!

(I ported back to Oceanpoint to check, just to make sure, but yes, now the wall is where it's supposed to be.)

[17:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Nope, I did one thing wrong! But I feex!
[17:09] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And done!
[17:10] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): So...for whatever reason...we had two prim sets move in two different directions. *Might* have been an initial rez error we never noticed. If so, relatively small one.

I mean, on the one hand, it's an old build. A great build, but an old build. On the other hand..."weird things happen on Gearhaven" we can now say whether we're talking about the roleplay storyline, or the actual lived SL experience, and that...is kind of unsettling.

I hope it's worth it, out on the highway, yeah (part III)

And we pick up from the very full-bright version on the roof...

[13:15] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: you can't deny she IS pretty, though.

I mean, yes, but that's hardly the point.

[13:15] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: and that breast tattoo. I made that.
[13:15] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): She's lovely. The tattoo is lovely too.
[13:15] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: You can only see 1.6666 nipples
[13:16] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): This does not help!
[13:16] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: and below her belly button is not in view

Be grateful for small favors, I suppose.

[13:17] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: let me try to move it
[13:17] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: [sh*t]

Yes, I did go through all the images I planned to post and carefully add a modesty covering.

[13:17] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): NOW THERE'S TWO
[13:17] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): please
[13:17] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): [Mxxx]
[13:17] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I'm begging you
[13:17] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): please stop
[13:17]mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: But I didn't have anything pressed to drag copy

Just...STOP...doing the things! Call for help! Why did she keep trying things that apparently only made things worse?!

[13:17] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: something wrong with my edit tools
[13:17] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): [Jxxxxxx] may kill ME at this point, and I didn't do it!
[13:18] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I'll rotate them if it lets me

Why...would that help?

[13:18] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: doh
[13:18] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): YOU
[13:18] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): are making
[13:18] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): MORE
[13:18] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): of them
[13:19] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Does, um....anyone have a net?
[13:19] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): For [Mxxx]?
[13:19] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I think it let me delete two!
[13:19] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Good
[13:19] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: 3
[13:19] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: wtf

Oh, don't say that--

[13:20] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): DO NOT TILE THEM

Oh, for the love of--STOP with the tiling of things!!

[13:20] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I AM NOT
[13:20] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): MIZI
[13:20] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I am no Amy Iwish, but I can build!! I don't knwo what is happening!!
[13:20] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): This one painting is going to become the bane of this poor girl's existence
[13:20] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: ugh

At this point, she made the entire thing radiantly blurred, which...I suppose...helped? And I thought we were done...

[13:21] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Well...that's...radioactively infective, but....better?
[13:21] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: it won't let me move it again
[13:21] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Which is SHOULDNT ANYWAY
[13:21] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): [Axxxxx]'s not in world, or she'd be here for this catastrophe
[13:22] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: mauybe it is a parcel thing
[13:22] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I'll wallk over
[13:22] Axxxxxx Gxxxxxx: Keystone Cops meets Sotheby's?
[13:22] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Apparently!
[13:22] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: ok I have move .. things again

I have all the fear.

[13:22] Wxxxxxxxx Jxxxxxxx: That sounds about right, [Axxxxxx].
[13:23] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay, good. Be *careful*....and try to move it, and take it back.
[13:23] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I will yeet it over there

No yeeting!

[13:23] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Do not yeet! Bad things will happen!
[13:23] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: ok I will "LOWER IT GRACEFULLY" into the gallery
[13:23] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: but it is like 10 meters tall
[13:24] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: ok .. it DEFINITELY is "move" and not "Stretch" or "Rotate"
[13:24] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: one
[13:24] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: two
[13:24] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: three
[13:24] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) holds her breath

She made. It GLOW. Once more, it was just dire comedy at this point.

[13:24] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): NO
[13:24] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): BAD [MXXX]
[13:24] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: !!
[13:24] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): NO BISCUIT
[13:24] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I am not doing this on purpose!!

ARE YOU SURE??



Every time I thought it was over...Do you see the tiny little circles? Do you see the tiny little labels? That's Miss M. and I. On the roof. For size reference.

[13:25] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It's the size of the ROOF
[13:25] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: imma relog and see if that fixes my tools

You do that.

[13:25] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Thankfully it's only facing Caledon Greystoke, but if anyone WAS there, they could SEE it from the island!

And then...

[13:26] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): ACK
[13:26] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): she made it physical
[13:26] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I thought that would help!
[13:26] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): HOW
[13:26] Wxxxxxxxx Jxxxxxxx: OMG
[13:26] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): How would that HELP
[13:26] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: It would fall off into the water
[13:26] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Well that's not what happened!
[13:27] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: OBVIOUSLY
[13:27] Wxxxxxxxx Jxxxxxxx: So gravity influences it and it falls.
[13:27] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Forward
[13:27] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): She wanted it to fall backwards, apparently.
[13:28] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: It didn't even crush us!
[13:28] txxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Usually when one complains about gravity being the scourge of one's unclothed form, this isn't what they're talking about

I know, right?

[13:28] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: maybe if we push it

Push...butwhy...

[13:29] Wxxxxxxxx Jxxxxxxx: [Mxxx], what are you trying to do with the huge picture?
[13:29] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: would it help to make it phantom
[13:29] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Get rid of it!
[13:29] Wxxxxxxxx Jxxxxxxx: Let me see if I can return it.
[13:29] Pxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Phantom just means it can be walked through.

Oh, great, that would be all we'd need, a giant pin-up we can walk through.

[13:29] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It did not crush us only because, ironically, the church steeple stopped it

I mean. Let that sink in.

[13:29] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Somehow, despite not having edit rights, it let me copy it

And I still don't know HOW...

[13:29] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: so I tried to move them
[13:30] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): You were able to take it back?
[13:30] Axxxxxx Gxxxxxx: Turning large objects physical is often used by griefers. lol! You just griefed the Village with a nudie! *snorts*
[13:30] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): SHE DID

So, between Mr. J, Miss R., myself, and the at this point very doubtable Miss M., we got everything squared away. Finally.

[13:31] txxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: This really is the best conversation that I've seen here in years
[13:33] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): This is unbelievable
[13:33] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): She just keeps finding new photographs
[13:34] Axxxxxx Gxxxxxx: The Tragic Tale of the Fallen [Jxxxxxx] with the Big Boobies.

Infamous in song and story, I'm sure.

[13:34] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) snorts
[13:35] txxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: And here I thought you were supposed to fall from grace......
[13:35] Axxxxxx Gxxxxxx: Turns out, it just takes [Mxxx] with a bit of edit rights. *grins*
[13:36] Axxxxxx Gxxxxxx: *insert rimshot here*

[13:37] txxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: What little virtue I have left is even more at risk than I;d thought, clearly.....

Clearly.

[13:37] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): But she doesn't have any on this parcel beyond rezzing out her own items!
[13:37] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): That's what we can't understand!
[13:38] txxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Given that large physical prims with nude textures are seemingly falling from the sky, much more than mere virtue is at risk.
[13:38] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I remain ever grateful to Raven's Perch, for stopping the fall of the astoundingly huge painting onto [Mxxx] and I.

And thus ends the tale. I hope. But if Miss M. pulls this trick a third time, somehow? I'm going to fly over in the Gray Area with the Duke and bomb her house.

I hope it's worth it, out on the highway, yeah (part II)

So, the previous post was the day before yesterday. And then, yesterday...this happened:

[12:48] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: [dusts off her hands against each other] There. So apparently I have "atoned" for "making" [Jxxxxxx] put her tastefully nude photo up in [Axxxxx]'s gallery by putting my own next to it. Hopefully neither will be gracing an outside public wall in 100s of repeats, full bright, sub 1.0 scaled, any time soon.

Yes, that is...devoutly to be wished. And I have no objections to the gallery show--I was considering the concept--but all this sounds...well, very much "There I've fixed it". And...how? Precisely?

[12:49] txxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Thank you for warning me. I, for one, will exercise every bit of discretion I possess......
[12:49] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I....what.
[12:49] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): YOU ARE NOT MAKING IT EASY NOT TO BLOG THIS

And obviously, I failed on the not blogging it part, though I would reinforce, I did ask both Miss M. and Lady J. for permission. Because this was...oh, gods, "huge" sounds like a terrible pun, considering what happens later.

[12:50] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: *I* don't have any qualms about your blog.
[12:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Yay! Permission!

Which is when I went back and captured the beginning of this section of chat, but held it until verifying with Lady J.

[12:50] Fxxxxx Cxxxxxxx: Every ... bit ... of...discretion? What are the units of "discretion" ?

Valid question.

[12:50] Wxxxxxxxx Jxxxxxxx: Discretion? We don't got no discretion? We don't got to show you no stinkin discretion. (apologies to Gold Hat)
[12:52] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I am definitely not advocating anyone go to her gallery and see either photo, on the back wall on the let side, 2nd floor.
[12:52] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: *left
[12:52] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Of course not.
[12:52] txxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Wouldn't dream of it....
[12:52] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: *Right side!!!
[12:53] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: right
[12:53] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: (omg I am the WORST geographer)
[12:54] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Just don't go here Caledon Oxbridge Village (75,26,32) if you don't want to see them.
[12:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Helpful!
[12:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) grins
[12:55] txxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: That's certainly a load off my mind......
[13:02] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) smiles
[13:03] Axxxxxx Gxxxxxx has found myself surprised that there's never been a burlesque club in Caledon called the Bewm Bewm Room.

I'm not. That sounds more like it should show up in Seraph City.

[13:04] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: So apparently somehow I was able to drag-copy [Jxxxxxx]'s photo so there are 4 of them. I shoved 3 back behind the wall.

And this is when things started going off the rails again. How? How does someone copy someone else's object in SL? I can't recall if Miss M. still had rights to Lady J's objects, it's certainly possible, but I have rights to move, send back, and outright delete Lady J's objects, because we do run into issues building on Gearhaven? And I don't have to right to copy anything she directly owns. So...confusion?

[13:04] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) facepalms
[13:04] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): You....have issues. :D
[13:04] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I wonder if I can resize them
[13:05] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: oh no

Oh, please no--

[13:05] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Don't say that
[13:05] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Don't say that concerning nudes
[13:05] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Not again
[13:06] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: i can fix it

OH PLEASE NO--

[13:06] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: you know how when you build
[13:06] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: and the angle is odd and you slide a stretch handle

Oh, no. What? Oh no.

[13:06] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: and it flings the opposite way?
[13:06] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Uh-huh....
[13:06] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): WAIT
[13:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): So where is [Jxxxxxx]'s nude photo NOW??
[13:07] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: at teh gallery
[13:07] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I can't edit or move it now
[13:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Somewhere flying over Caledon??
[13:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Oh, so it's still in the gallery

I suppose we should be grateful for small favors.

[13:07] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: well, the one ON the wall is fine

Good, good...

[13:07] vxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: ...on the side of a blimp?
[13:07] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: it's up
[13:07] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: over the building
[13:07] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: and .. large

Don't say 'large'.

[13:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Well, that's fine, I'm sure Ms. [Jxxxx] can send it back or delete it at....

And then the ha'penny dropped, so to speak.

[13:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): YOU
[13:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): DID
[13:08] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): NOT
[13:08] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): do this
[13:08] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): AGAIN
[13:08] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: no no not exactly
[13:08] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: i um
[13:08] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: You um?
[13:08] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I will try to shrink it.. but now it won't let me.. I don't have edit permissions on her stuff but it let me do it a minute ago!

HOW?!?

[13:09] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: if it lets me move it maybe I can put it in the ground or the water
[13:09] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: i will TP out and back an dsee if that helps
[13:10] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: ok i can move it
[13:10] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: oops

And it was hearing that 'oops', faithful readers, that made me leave the En Garde event at Sakura--in my very 1940's sleeveless twin set, with the extraordinarily non-Victorian lipstick-red pumps--and take the landmark that Miss M. had "helpfully" given out earlier. Because oh, dear gods, this was going pear-shaped AGAIN.

[13:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): AND the landmark you gave drops you off in midair--

Because it did. I didn't even bother flying, I just fell to the roof and went splat.

[13:11] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: does it?
[13:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) stomps on the roof for emphasis
[13:11] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: um

And, when I turned around after hitting the roof...

[13:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): MIZI OMG
[13:11] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: let me see if I can make it all grey or something
[13:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I THOUGHT YOU LIKED HER
[13:12] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) facepalms

[13:12] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): All the palms

[13:12] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Oh I fixed it!
[13:12] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Well, it's gone at least...
[13:12] txxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Landmark "is not working as intended" or "not working, as intended"?

That is an excellent question. I do not know.

[13:12] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: whew
[13:12] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: oh it autoreturned
[13:12] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: let me take care of that

WAIT NO WHAT--

[13:12] Gxxxxxxx Hxxxx cacophony of the screeching damned somewhere in the distance.
[13:12] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): DO NOT BRING IT BACK
[13:13] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): mizi void stars stop
[13:13] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I wanted it back in my normal inventory

At that size??

[13:13] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: oh that isn ot what that does
[13:13] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Please tell me you can take that back
[13:13] txxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: There is such a thing as a normal inventory? Who knew?
[13:14] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: nope
[13:14] vxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I have crocuses in my pocketses.

Miss V., I highly doubt you march around anywhere with even tasteful nudes in with the crocuses, ready to be whipped out at a moment's notice, so...

[13:14] Nxxxx Rxxx: Certainly not a description of MY inventory

Nor mine, but nevertheless.

[13:14] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): You can't do ANYTHING with it?
[13:14] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Not even make it grey?
[13:14] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: maybe if we put a giant Caledon flag in front of it
[13:14] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): [Jxxxxxx] is going to kill you

Oh, WHY...

[13:14] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: oh no
[13:14] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): YOU MADE IT FULL BRIGHT
[13:14] mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I didn't do anything!!

YOU MADE IT FULL BRIGHT!

[13:14] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): [Jxxxxxx] is going to kill you.
[13:14] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I may help.

And we adjourn to part three...

I hope it's worth it, out on the highway, yeah (part I)

We had been discussing the Steam Hunt when Miss H. veered into building matters:

[14:47] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: ahh no [Sxxxxx] has me on a show leash...I am no longer allowed to delete or make buildings invisible...I already pulled that stunt
[14:47] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Make...buildings...invis....
[14:47] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay, that's one I haven't done!
[14:48] Cxxxxx Mxxxxxx: you can always make them invisible, but only for yourself
[14:48] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: well first I made it invisible thn I turned them plywood colored all over
[14:48] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I have deleted them out from under me, taken back walls or floors, once made a house physical on misclick, THAT was fun....
[14:48] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I had a mishap with a picture frame
[14:48] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Yes, I've accidentally retextured with a texture I didn't want. :D
[14:48] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Never made an entire house invisible.
[14:48] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I live to excel
[14:49] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) salutes you

I mean...it is a kind of accomplishment. What does one do with an entirely invisible house? I'd probably turn it teal and make it glow, but then I'd worry about the neighbors seeing in. :D

[14:49] Cxxxxx Mxxxxxx: I've done the re-texturing with a definitely-not-a-wall texture before.
[14:49] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Yes. .. I once had 100s of [Jxxxxxx]'s looking at me when I dragged a snapshot on teh wall i was editing.
[14:49] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) laughs
[14:49] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): That would be amusing AND unnerving
[14:49] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: If you are going to do something bone headed go for the whole enchiladea
[14:49] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: and then LL decided, oh, you can't edit that now and locked it.
[14:49] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: oooh [Mxxx] that sounds creepy
[14:49] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: yikes
[14:49] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Yes.. her eyes follow you wherever you walk
[14:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) grins
[14:50] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I just reskinned all my apartment walls over it
[14:50] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Not that I minded that so much
[14:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): They do that in front of her, too
[14:50] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: hurts the prim allowance though
[14:50] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: but no way was I asking [Sxxxxx] for help with the wallpaper again after that
[14:51] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: This was a public wall on the [RP] sim.

...wait. It was all fun and games until this. Miss M., you did this on a public wall? How public a wall?? Dear gods.

[14:51] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I am trying to keep a low profile
[14:51] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: wow you are famous then!
[14:52] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Luckily I tend to be one between the UK and US East coast crowds, so I sorted it before anyone else came on sim
[14:52] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: well, mostly

Um..."mostly"?

[14:52] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx feels a disturbance in the force and pokes her head in the room.
[14:52] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) falls down laughing
[14:53] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx tries to look innocent
[14:53] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I now have a NC full of UUIDs of anything I try to edit like that. Thank gods for cache viewers.
[14:53] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx: [mxxx] did what now?
[14:53] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) can only point weakly at [Jxxxxxx], make weird gestures towards her eyes, and collapse into giggles again.
[14:53] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: You know the main wall on the old [RP] sim that the mansion is atop?

You fill me with dread, Miss M. Say on.

[14:53] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx nods slowly, "above the river? yes?"
[14:54] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I dragged you portrait onto it on accident and set the repeats to like . a lot.
[14:54] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: and then LL locked it
[14:54] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx gapes in horror. "oh. my. GOD."
[14:54] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx falls down. "wait, WHICH portrait?"
[14:54] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: um
[14:54] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: the um
[14:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Oh gods
[14:54] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: racy one
[14:54] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx: oh GOD

I should note, this entire conversation was held in the main Independent States of Caledon group. So Miss M. has just told a bunch of neo-Victorians that she tiled a pin-up shot of another Caledonian across a retaining wall that runs the length of more than one building. Let that sink in.

[14:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): 0.0
[14:54] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx: oh NO!!! YOU DIDN'T
[14:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): OKAY THAT'S WORSE
[14:54] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: well, the nakies one where your bits are hidden
[14:54] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: mostly

"Mostly".

[14:55] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) facepalms
[14:55] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst) falls to the floor, hands over her head. "OH MY GOD."
[14:55] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): "Mostly"
[14:55] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Its ok. only like 2 people came on sim before I fixed it

"Only".

[14:55] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) snickercackles
[14:55] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: and they probalby didn't see it
[14:55] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: most lkely
[14:55] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): "Probably"
[14:55] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: ish
[14:55] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) collapses again

She keeps using these words!

[14:55] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I mean, [Axxxxx] and [Nxxxxxx] never have said one word.
[14:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I want to send the Duke this entire conversation. :D

I did send the Duke this entire conversation. Then I saved it for here (with permission from both chief parties involved, yes).

[14:56] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxxx: anyway.. we were saying.. *I* was saying how your eyes followed me wherever I walked
[14:56] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: OMG
[14:57] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I mean I wasn't panicking running around
[14:57] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: a lot

"A lot".

[14:57] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: this is why I don't do Nakies piccies
[14:57] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: you never know where they end up

Probably wise, Miss H.!

[14:57] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx: they were TASTEFUL!
[14:57] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: When you got far enough way you couldn't even tell it was you

This...is...not as reassuring as you think it is, Miss M.

[14:57] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: hardly
[14:57] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I'm sure they were!
[14:57] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: ish
[14:58] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: pffft
[14:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): "Ish"
[14:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) giggles again

Oh, dear gods, Miss M. and qualifiers. I was just astounded at this point.

[14:58] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: someone needs to give me a scale with ish on it so I can calibrate
[14:58] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: of course, full bright did make it easier to tell in the dark
[14:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): FULL
[14:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): BRIGHT
[14:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) is dead nao.

AKA, actually leaning over the keyboard, laughing until I was fighting for air, as much in shock as amusement. Not even kidding.

[14:59] Gxxxxxxx Hxxxx looks over the brim of his glasses in bemusement.
[14:59] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): can't....breathe....halp....
[14:59] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Hey! at least I didn't have glow on it
[14:59] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: LOL
[15:00] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx digs out the photo.
[15:01] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: It was a good lesson in texture preparedness, making sure to get enough sleep, and reading texture titles more carefully.
[15:01] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) grins. "Yes. Always texture when rested."
[15:01] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Ok Justine is trying to calibrate my ish...but FLikr doesn't want me to see
[15:01] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx: and maybe don't use a naked picture of your best friend?
[15:01] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx: maybe?

THIS. ALL the this!

[15:02] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I wasn't using it per se
[15:02] Mxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: and I didn't know the wall was selected

Wait, whoa, missed this....What were you doing, then, Miss M.? That tiled the texture that many times over the wall you didn't know was selected? Were you trying to make a, what, a mosaic vase? With little images of Lady J as the tiles??

[15:02] Jxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxx passes the photo to [hxxxxx]. "PLEASE don't put it on any walls? kthx."
[15:03] Hxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: I will look and delete it to be certain Sounds fair enough.

Can digital images be cursed? Because...there's a second part to this.

they isn't wonderin' why mama got mad, 'cause papa didn't bring no coffee home

Oh my sweet gods, Anife wrote back AGAIN.

So here's the breakdown. In that linked post, I responded on the blog, but not to her via email, because that lack of reply seriously dissuades 80% of the idiots who write me wanting collaborations for things my blog has NEVER done. But yesterday, she wrote back:

Good day, Emilly!

Not as long as you're in my inbox, it isn't.

Haven ' t heard from you,

There's a good reason for that, and it's "Haven't".

Do you have any questions regarding the proposal?

None at all, not interested.

I can help you with the answers)

I really doubt you can.

Or we can discuss details of our proposal over the phone,

Bite me,

Which one is more suitable for you?

D, none of the above.

Onward,

You have to be kidding. And she sent her complete contact info, plus the business web search site's complete link AND their physical address, PLUS her phone number. My gods, give up.

I wrote her back yesterday, when the above came in:

All right, so not responding didn't make you go away. Let's try this.

What can you possibly do for a blog that has one (and ONLY one) writer, NO advertising, NO ad banner, NO need for a job search service, and NO idea what you could want beyond that? If you come up with something, let me know. I am all a-twitter with anticipation.

And she wrote back to THAT.

Wow,
Thank you for the reply, Emilly,

No problem. Now will you go away?

I understand what you mean, having nothing uncommon how we can actually help each other by partnering,

Good that you see that, and you mean "nothing in common".

But basically all websites have something very important really happy to multiply,
It’s traffic,

I get enough.

And let me explain my offer here, as it’s a barter type of collabing, no cost, at all,

It's not the cost, or lack thereof, that's making me uninterested.

it’s not about job posting, is about offering you is a free of charge banner of your website displayed on relevant [spammer's web site] pages.

...Wait. You think MAKING ME an ad banner for my blog will HELP? Wow, are you barking up the wrong tree.

On [spammer's web site] search result pages. So, its 100% targeted ad,

Don't care,

People will be redirected to the website by clicking on the banner.

DON'T. CARE.

It will help to increase your brand awareness as well.

I have a brand? Since when?

we believe that your content will be more than just useful to some of our targeted users.

I wholly disagree.

We will use special keywords due to your banner. So we can make sure that you will be getting your target audience going to your webpage.

SERIOUSLY uninterested.

Also, we would be happy if you could feature us with a relevant text link on your website.

Never going to happen.

Please, let me know what you think abou the proposal, Emilly,

It's "about", and still not interested.

It entails no money liabilities,

STILL DON'T CAAAAARE.

Best,

Swallow a dead frog,

[the complete web site/title/telephone/web site closing again]

I just sent back "I'm not interested." Hopefully, that will make her leave me alone.

Honestly, if she writes back? I'm just marking her email as spam.

the Reds are just over yonder, boys, and we ain't gonna be here long

Hoo boy, I haven't seen something this jarring for quite some time. (And before you ask, no, she's spent far too long on the grid for this level of rookie mistake.)

I present: 2019's Worst Feet award.



Yes, I know, hooker platforms are hugely popular on SL. I'm not saying that. I personally think that particular style of shoe is unflattering, and I refuse to buy any that don't have VERY impressive design features. But as you can see, that's not really the problem. The skin tone is the problem. Did no one mention to her she's not black?

Maybe she's genuinely lost on this point--I was mainly focused on her feet, not the tragedy of the dress (which isn't great) and the fact that her hair was literally larger than her entire head twice over. But then I swung around to the rear, and I realized we had a bigger problem.



I am 98% sure these are vintage shoes, from that era in SL where people made shoes with prim feet in them. Why do I think this? Two reasons, and neither of them have to do with the skin tone that's so jarring. Point one: There was a certain curve to the foot, a very unnatural curve to the foot, that was only seen in really big play in the early days of sculpted feet. It can clearly be seen from the above shot; toes just don't bend like that, period.

But point two is worse: measure the feet. Her feet are the same length as her entire calves, and that's terrifying. That is cartoonish in the worst way. That is ludicrously oversized. Don't do this.

And learn how to use the skin-tinting HUD. Jesus.